Bayle: Political WritingsPierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ideas of Voltaire (who acclaimed it for its candour on such subjects as atheism, obscenity and sexual conduct), Hume, Montesquieu and Rousseau. Banned in France on first publication in 1697, Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique became a bestseller and ran into several editions and translations. Sally L. Jenkinson's masterly edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's monumental work (which ran to seven million words). This is volume selects political writings from Bayle's work and presents its author as a specifically political thinker. Sally L. Jenkinson's authoritative translation, careful selection of texts, and lucid introduction will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history and French studies. |
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... King , Marianne Horowitz , Cary Nederman , Melvin Richter , Amie and Donald Tan- nenbaum , Lyman Tower Sargent , Harry Bracken , and Giovanni Mori . To the Nuffield Foundation I express my appreciation for pro- viding , in 1996-8 , a ...
... King , Marianne Horowitz , Cary Nederman , Melvin Richter , Amie and Donald Tan- nenbaum , Lyman Tower Sargent , Harry Bracken , and Giovanni Mori . To the Nuffield Foundation I express my appreciation for pro- viding , in 1996-8 , a ...
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... king's divine right - although Ultramontane apologists interpreted it in that way to discredit them ( cf. Sainc ( E ) ) . Rather , they implied defiantly that no allegiance to Pope or priest was owed by any citizen of the French ...
... king's divine right - although Ultramontane apologists interpreted it in that way to discredit them ( cf. Sainc ( E ) ) . Rather , they implied defiantly that no allegiance to Pope or priest was owed by any citizen of the French ...
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... King James II of England , seeing a Catholic prince on the throne of a Protestant country as a mirror image of Henry IV's earlier role as a Huguenot prince in a Catholic country ( NRL , pp . 293-4 ) . As events turned out , the English ...
... King James II of England , seeing a Catholic prince on the throne of a Protestant country as a mirror image of Henry IV's earlier role as a Huguenot prince in a Catholic country ( NRL , pp . 293-4 ) . As events turned out , the English ...
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... king ' . Catholic Faculty of Theology releases subjects from loyalty to Henry III , or to Henry IV as his Prot- estant heir and successor . Pope recognises Henry IV as legitimate French sovereign . Edict of Nantes guaranteeing limited ...
... king ' . Catholic Faculty of Theology releases subjects from loyalty to Henry III , or to Henry IV as his Prot- estant heir and successor . Pope recognises Henry IV as legitimate French sovereign . Edict of Nantes guaranteeing limited ...
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... king . The Regency of Anne of Austria . The age of Mazarin begins . Louis XIV ( 1643-1715 ) begins period of personal rule and policy of gradual restoration of a single official religion . Two Principal Systems of the World ( 1632 ) ...
... king . The Regency of Anne of Austria . The age of Mazarin begins . Louis XIV ( 1643-1715 ) begins period of personal rule and policy of gradual restoration of a single official religion . Two Principal Systems of the World ( 1632 ) ...
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