Bayle: Political Writings Edited by Sally L. Jenkinson

Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique was a bestseller throughout Europe for two centuries. Sally L. Jenkinson's masterly new edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's vast work, uncovering Bayle's progressive views on toleration and elitism. This anthology is the first in English to present Bayle as a specifically political thinker. 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on translation
Introduction: A Defence of Justice and Freedom
Texts: Project for a critical dictionary
Bodin
Brutus
David
Elizabeth
Gregory I
Hobbes
de l?Hopital
Hotman
Japan
Juno
Loyola
Macon
Machiavelli
Mariana
Marguerite, reine de Navarre
Nicole
Ovid
Sainte-Aldegonde
Sainctes
Marianus Socinus
Faustus Socinus
Synergists
Xenophanes
Clarifications
Date tables A and B, and further reading
Selected bibliography
Index.