Jean Bodin.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0754625451

Jean Bodin.

Ed. by Julian H. Franklin.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2006

453 pages

$225.00

Hardcover

International library of essays in the history of social and political thought

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Best known for his theory of sovereignty, Jean Bodin (1529-1596) sought to encompass all the disciplines of his age in a single encyclopedia of knowledge. Franklin (Columbia U.) ha...

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