Samuel Pufendorf’s The Present State of Germany was first published in 1667 (under the pseudonym Severinus de Monzambano) and immediately became one of the most notorious works in Europe for the next half century. Its trenchant critique of previous theories of the Holy Roman Empire elicited both attacks and defenses, and it also anticipated many elements in Pufendorf’s subsequent writings on natural law, history, and religion.
272 pages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I
Puffendorf’s Preface to the First Edition
9
Preface to the Second Edition
31
A Letter Concerning the Manuscript
83
The Present State of Germany
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