I vincoli del disinganno: Per una nuova interpretazione di Montaigne (review)
stands out by his “supériorité intellectuelle” (448), and finds the Démonomanie consistent politically with the République and consistent theologically with the Colloque. Another of these essays takes a longer view, finding older roots of the chasse aux sorciers in a Europe depopulated by repeated visitations of the Black Death and requiring population growth to rebuild (Heinsohn and Steiger). This, they suggest, introduces a rational element of political economy into the question, and explains why the Démonomanie condemns not only infanticide and abortion but also — in some detail — any form of contraception whether mechanical, medical, or psychological, as forms of sorcery violating divine law. This volume has papers that make serious contributions to Bodin studies, or point to paths not yet fully explored. In one respect it disappoints. The Munich and Angers volumes each included substantial summaries of the discussions on the papers. On the interplay of ideas at Lyon, this volume reports almost nothing. KENNETH D. MCRAE Carleton University, Ottawa