Jean Bodin (1530–1596), renowned for his powerful intellect and breadth of knowledge, was truly a renaissance man. His works on political and legal thought set him apart as one of the most brilliant minds of the period. Although he is perhaps less known for his writing on religious questions of his day, his Colloquium remains a unique contribution to religious dialogue. It circulated in its Latin manuscript form, but it was not published until the nineteenth century. Marion Leathers Kuntz offers the first English translation of this masterpiece. Structured as a conversation among a Catholic, a Jew, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, a Muslim, a skeptic, and a philosophical naturalist, the Colloquium encourages religious tolerance and poses challenging questions for anyone interested in the nature of religious and philosophical thought. Kuntz’s introduction, translation, and annotations situate the volume both as a historical work and as a timeless chronicle of the tensions among religion, philosophy, science, faith, doubt, and empirical evidence.

Colloquium of the Seven About Secrets of the Sublime

History

Bodin, Jean

Europe

Penn State University Press

This book was written during a period of civil and religious upheaval in mid-16th century France, is a Renaissance humanist's formulation of a philosophy of history. It deals with broad, universal questions of historical interpretation against a background of the particular problem of the nature of government in France. The concept of sovereignty is central to Bodin's political thought, and from this concept he builds an analysis of the origin of the state, and classification of states, and the causes of the rise and fall of empires. Bodin's philosophical system explores the relationship of man to nature, to the nation, and to the cosmic powers working through the elements. A mixture of rationalism, superstition, and pseudo-science, the system attempts to describe the workings of history in terms of human, natural, and divine law, and to reconcile them with the theories of Renaissance Platonism and Pythagorean numbers. The treatise illustrates the move away from an authoritarian to a natural interpretation of history and is a major document of the transitional period between medieval and the modern age.

Method for Easy Comprehension of History

W.W.Norton&Company

Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology.  The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique.  Bodin was primarily responsible for introducing the seductive but erroneous notion that sovereignty is indivisible, that the entire power of the state had to be vested in a single individual or group. This thesis, combined with the prevailing crisis of authority during the French religious wars, led Bodin to a systematically absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. This is the first complete translation of this material into English since 1606, and is accompanied by a lucid introduction, chronology, and bibliography.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology. The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique. Bodin was primarily responsible for introducing the seductive but erroneous notion that sovereignty is indivisible, that the entire power of the state had to be vested in a single individual or group. This thesis, combined with the prevailing crisis of authority during the French religious wars, led Bodin to a systematically absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. This is the first complete translation of this material into English since 1606, and is accompanied by a lucid introduction, chronology, and bibliography.

Australia & Oceania

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The Six Bookes of a Commonweale: A Facsimile Reprint of the English Translation of 1606, Corrected and Supplemented in the Light of a New Comparison ... Latin Texts (Harvard Political Classics, 2)

Harvard University Press

The Six Bookes of a Commonweale

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

The description for this book, Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime: Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis, will be forthcoming.

Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime: Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton University Press

Method for the Easy Comprehension of History

Russell Pr

Le Theatre De La Natvre Vniverselle De Iean Bodin ...: Auquel On Peut Contempler Les Causes Efficientes & Finales De Toutes Choses, Desquelles Lórdre ... Responces En Cinc Liures ... (French Edition)

Science & Math

De Fougerolles, François

Biological Sciences

Legare Street Press

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