Chapter 5 Web Links

Online Resources

1) Free online copy of the complete English works (1839-1843) edited by William Molesworth. Includes both facsimile PDFs as well as downloadable eBook formats: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/molesworth-english-works-of-thomas-hobbes-11-vols.
2) Podcasts: In Our Time: Hobbes (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9l1) and In Our Time: Sovereignty (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07hhvxx). Features discussion by leading scholars of Hobbes’s thought and of his place in the history of sovereignty.
3) Digital reproductions of Theodore de Bry’s images of Indigenous Americans, published in 1590 and a possible source for Hobbes’s depiction of native peoples, both in his text and in the De Cive frontispiece: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/engravings-of-native-americans-and-europeans-in-de-brys-america
4) Helpful, peer-reviewed outline of Hobbes’s arguments by S. A. Lloyd at the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, accompanied by an extensive reading list: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/
5) Collection of online resources about the English Civil Wars put together by English Heritage, introducing key figures and sites of battle: