Colloque - 5-6/02/2015 - Early Modern Sovereignties. Theory and Practice of a Burgeoning Concept in the Netherlands

Although sovereignty is often dealt with in articles and books on early modern political thought, there is no comprehensive historical study of sovereignty in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the idea itself took shape. Most studies focus on particular (often recurring) authors, such as Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes, or peculiar aspects, such as the division of sovereignty. What is conspicuously absent, moreover, is a fullfledged account about the ideas on sovereignty as developed..