Jean Bodin
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Jean Bodin was a 16th-century French legal scholar and political thinker whose ideas significantly shaped European concepts of sovereignty and state power. He is also remembered for his influential writings on witchcraft, which unfortunately promoted the persecution of accused witches during a dangerous period in European history.
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- Born
- c. 1530
- Died
- 1596
- Works
- 135
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- Discours de Iean Bodin sur le rehaussement et diminution des monnoyes, tant d'or que d'argent, & le moyen d'y remedier
- Apologie de René Herpin pour la Republique de I. Bodin
- Le théâtre de la nature universelle de Iean Bodin ... Auquel on peut contempler les causes efficientes & finales de toutes choses,desquelles l'ordre est continué par questions & responces en cinq liures ...
- Los seis libros de la Republica de Ivan Bodino
- Demonomania de gli stregoni
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Jean Bodin (/boʊˈdæn/; French: [ʒɑ̃ bɔdɛ̃]; c. 1530 – 1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. Bodin lived during the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and wrote against the background of religious conflict in France. He seemed to be a nominal Catholic throughout his life but was critical of papal authority over governments. Known for his theory of sovereignty, he favoured the strong central control of a national monarchy as an antidote to factional strife.
Towards the end of his life he wrote a dialogue among different religions, including representatives of Judaism, Islam and natural theology in which all agreed to coexist in concord, but was not published. He was also an influential writer on demonology, as his later years were spent during the peak of the early modern witch trials.