The Reception of Bodin Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History General Editor Han van Ruler, Erasmus University Rotterdam Founded by Arjo Vanderjagt Editorial Board C. S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore M. Colish, Yale University J. I. Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton A. Koba, University of Tokyo M. Mugnai, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa W. Otten, University of Chicago VOLUME 223 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bsih The Reception of Bodin Edited by Howell A. Lloyd LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 Cover illustration: ‘Le Libraire.’ Original painting by French artist André Martins de Barros, Paris. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The reception of Bodin / edited by Howell A. Lloyd. pages cm. — (Brill’s studies in intellectual history, ISSN 0920-8607 ; volume 223) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-23608-0 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-25980-5 (e-book) 1. Bodin, Jean, 1530–1596. 2. Bodin, Jean, 1530–1596—Influence. 3. State, The. 4. Political science—France— History—16th century. 5. Political science—Europe—History—16th century. 6. Europe— Intellectual history—16th century. I. Lloyd, Howell A. JC139.B8R44 2013 321’.6092—dc23 2013028849 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 0920-8607 ISBN 978-90-04-23608-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-25980-5 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. CONTENTS Preface ............................................................................................................... vii List of Contributors ....................................................................................... ix Introduction .................................................................................................... 1 Howell A. Lloyd 1 The History and Theory of Reception .............................................. 21 Peter Burke 2 On Bodin’s Method ................................................................................ 39 Marie-Dominique Couzinet 3 The Experiential World of Jean Bodin ............................................. 67 Mark Greengrass 4 Listening to Witches: Bodin’s Use of Confession in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers ........................................................ 97 Virginia Krause 5 Bodin’s Reception of Johann Weyer in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers ................................................................................................ 117 Christian Martin 6 Authorial Strategies in Jean Bodin .................................................... 137 Ann Blair 7 Bodin in the Netherlands ..................................................................... 157 Jan Machielsen 8 Reading from the Margins: Some Insights into the Early Reception of Bodin’s Methodus ............................................... 193 Sara Miglietti vi contents 9 The Works of Bodin under the Lens of Roman Theologians and Inquisitors ...................................................................................... 219 Michaela Valente 10 Bodin’s Démonomanie in the German Vernacular .................... 237 Jonathan Schüz 11 Making the Canon? The Early Reception of the République in Castilian Political Thought .......................................................... 257 Harald E. Braun 12 The Reception of Bodin in the Holy Roman Empire and the Making of the Territorial State ........................................ 293 Robert von Friedeburg 13 Sovereignty and Reason of State: Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes ......................................................................... 323 Luc Foisneau 14 The Italian “Readers” of Bodin, 17th–18th Centuries: Readers of Bodin in Italy—From Albergati to Filangieri ........ 343 Vittor Ivo Comparato 15 The Italian “Readers” of Bodin, 17th–18th Centuries: The Italian “Readers” out of Italy—Alberico Gentili (1552–1608) ............................................................................................. 371 Diego Quaglioni 16 Bodin in the English Revolution ..................................................... 387 Glenn Burgess Conclusion .......................................................................................................... 409 Howell A. Lloyd Consolidated Bibliography .......................................................................... 417 Index .................................................................................................................. 453 PREFACE This volume is one of the principal outputs of a collaborative research project funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. The outputs include, in addition to the present volume, a web- site, “The Bodin Project”, now publicly accessible. The web-site contains copies in portable document format (pdf) of Jean Bodin’s main publica- tions, analyses of his sources, links to other contemporary works, and a cumulative bibliography. Its construction is being facilitated through the on-going collaboration of participants in the project who have also con- tributed to the present volume. All in all, we may justifiably claim to have satisfied the requirements of the AHRC’s ‘Research Networks and Work- shops’ scheme under the terms of which our funding was awarded. The award enabled us to hold two workshops, both hosted at the Uni- versity of Hull. At the first workshop agenda-setting papers were delivered by two of the participants, Peter Burke and Marie-Dominique Couzinet. We also heard a stimulating and enlightening paper by Mario Turchetti of Fribourg, on the challenges of preparing his bi-lingual edition (French and Latin, the two original languages) of Bodin’s masterpiece, Les Six livres de la république (De republica libri sex). The rest of the workshop was devoted to informal discussions in specialist groups, each deliberat- ing on one of Bodin’s three principal texts, the Methodus, the République and the Démonomanie, and then reporting back in plenary session. The papers published as chapters in the present volume, drafts of all of which were presented and discussed at our second workshop, may be reckoned at least in part to be fruits of those early exchanges. In addition to the authors of these chapters, the following colleagues participated in the project as discussants at our first workshop: Timothy Chesters (Royal Holloway College, London), Diego Ramada Curto (Lis- bon), Colin Davis (East Anglia), Philippe Desan (Chicago), Ralph Häfner (Tübingen), Lorna Hardwick (Open University), Simon Hodson (JISC), Kenneth D. McRae (Carleton), Ignacio Massot (Barcelona), Wolfgang, E. J. Weber (Augsburg). Their input contributed valuably to our deliberations, as did the papers already mentioned. All in all, the workshops succeeded in generating a remarkably lively and purposeful spirit, traces of which we hope are still apparent in the volume itself. viii preface All members of the project group wish to express their appreciation of the excellent facilities and support provided for them by the University of Hull. As convenor and, now, editor I should like especially to record my thanks to two friends, Glenn Burgess and Mark Greengrass, who despite other heavy commitments have been an invaluable source of advice and encouragement from the moment of the project’s conception. For help with the website I am particularly grateful to Ann Blair. I am also indebted to the artist Andre Martins de Barros for the present volume’s cover illus- tration, reproduced from an original painting which seems to capture an essential and inescapable truth: that ‘the reception of Bodin’ was depen- dent upon the transmission of ideas very largely through the medium of the printed book and the agency of printers and booksellers. Howell A. Lloyd University of Hull March 2013 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Professor Ann Blair, Harvard University, USA; author, The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (1997); Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (2010). Dr Harald E. Braun, University of Liverpool, UK; author, Juan de Mari- ana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (2007); co-editor, The Renaissance Conscience (2011). Professor Glenn Burgess, University of Hull, UK; author, The Politics of the Ancient Constitution (1992); co-editor, English Radicalism, 1550–1850 (2007). Professor Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK; publica- tions include The Fortunes of the Courtier (1996), with opening chapter on ‘Tradition and Reception’; and his Wiles Lectures, Languages and Com- munities in Early Modern Europe (2004). Professor Vittor Ivo Comparato, Università