1. See Hobbes, Behemoth, or the Long Parliament, F. Tönnies (ed.), London, Frank Cass, 1969 (hereafter, Behemoth). Hobbes has had a lasting interest in history from his early translation of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War until his Behemoth, a history of the English Civil War. See L. Borot, “History in Hobbes’s Thought,” in T. Sorell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 305–328.
2. On common people and politics in England in the early seventeenth century, see David Rollison, A Commonwealth of the People. Popular Politics and England’s Long Social Revolution, 1066–1649, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
3. A further question—which we will not be able to answer here—would be: How can that new way of thinking about our life be contrasted with other forms of living? For an anthropological answer to that question, see Ph. Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, trans. J. Lloyd, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2013.
4. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 3. The English and Latin Texts (ii), chap. 37, N. Malcolm (ed.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 684 (hereafter Leviathan).
5. See L. Foisneau, Hobbes et la toute-puissance de Dieu, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2000, pp. 207–213.