Jean Bodin and the Romance of Demonology

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dc.contributor.authorMacPhail, Eric M
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-20T16:32:51Z
dc.date.available2025-02-20T16:32:51Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-05
dc.description.abstractThis article proposes a comparison between the French Renaissance demonologist Jean Bodin and the fictional character Don Quijote. Like the hero of Cervantes’ novel, Bodin believes everything he reads. Consequently, Bodin makes his own discipline of demonology a species of romance that eagerly blurs the boundary of fact and fiction. This type of credulity can be usefully juxtaposed to Michel de Montaigne’s understanding of the imagination and to his more philosophical exploration of the realm of possibility.
dc.identifier.citationMacPhail, Eric M. "Jean Bodin and the Romance of Demonology." Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 265-276, 2018-1-5, https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201722473.
dc.identifier.issn2386-8066
dc.identifier.otherBRITE 889
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/31428
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201722473
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/analisis/article/view/2473
dc.relation.journalAnálisis. Revista de investigación filosófica
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dc.titleJean Bodin and the Romance of Demonology

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