László Kontler, Ph.D. (1996) is Professor of History at Central European University (Budapest). He has published widely on intellectual history, political and historical thought, translation and reception, including Translations, Histories, Enlightenments: William Robertson in Germany, 1765-1795 (Palgrave, 2014)Mark Somos (Ph.D. Harvard, 2007; Ph.D. Lugd. Bat., 2014) is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex Law School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Grotiana.

"This pioneering series of papers illuminates the hitherto little explored relationship between trust and happiness through an examination of both theory and practice over many centuries of history. Since both trust and happiness are important and topical subjects, this book will be valuable to social scientists and more generally to readers concerned about where our societies are going nowadays."Geoffrey Hosking, University College London

• Preface1 Introduction: Trust, Happiness, and the History of European Political ThoughtLászló Kontler and Mark SomosPart 1: Trust and Happiness in Theoretical Perspective2 Toleration, Trust and the Travails of Living Together GloballyJohn Dunn3 Ptolemy of Lucca’s Distrust in Politics and the Medieval Discourse on GovernmentBee Yun4 Natural Suspicion and Reasonable Trust: Machiavelli on Trust in PoliticsErica Benner5 Hugo Grotius on Trust, Its Causes and EffectsHans Blom6 Fidem Observandam Esse – Trust and Fear in Hobbes and LockePeter Schröder7 The Concept of Trust in Hobbes’s Political PhilosophyEva Odzuck8 The Formation of Leibniz’s Mature Ethics and His Specimen PolonorumGábor Gángó9 The Secularization of Happiness in Early Eighteenth-century Italian Political Thought: Revisiting the Foundations of Civil SocietyAdriana Luna-Fabritius10 Trust and Happiness in Nikolai Karamzin’s Political PhilosophyVladimir Ryzhkov11 Trust and Happiness in Ferdinand Tönnies’ Community and SocietyNiall Bond12 Distrust in Government: A Comparative Historical AnalysisKálmán PóczaPart 2: Trust as a Function of Political Negotiation13 Trust, Heresy and Rebellion: Reactions to Machiavelli in the Early Dutch Revolt (1572–1587)Alberto Clerici14 Privy Council Deliberations on Trust: The Holy Roman Empire around 1600Hannes Ziegler15 Trust as a Concept of Religious Plurality during the Thirty Years’ War Ralf-Peter Fuchs16 ‘No trust, no happiness’! Going beyond Locke in Seventeenth-century EnglandCesare Cuttica17 Adolf Fischhof and the National Question in the Habsburg Empire: A Problem of ‘trust’ and ‘collaboration’ amongst the Nationalities of Austria (1869–1885)Sara LagiPart 3: Trust and the Culture of Political Behaviour18 Pistis and Citizens in Ancient GreeceSteve Johnstone19 The Concept of Trust in the Political Thought of Fifteenth-century BurgundyPetra Schulte20 “Through the Bonds of Sentiment”: Fraternité and Politics in Revolutionary FranceAdrian O’Connor21 Trust and Distrust in a Modern Dictatorship: A Case Study of the Soviet UnionAlexey TikhomirovIndex

László Kontler, Ph.D. (1996) is Professor of History at Central European University (Budapest). He has published widely on intellectual history, political and historical thought, translation and reception, including Translations, Histories, Enlightenments: William Robertson in Germany, 1765-1795 (Palgrave, 2014)Mark Somos (Ph.D. Harvard, 2007; Ph.D. Lugd. Bat., 2014) is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex Law School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Grotiana.

"This pioneering series of papers illuminates the hitherto little explored relationship between trust and happiness through an examination of both theory and practice over many centuries of history. Since both trust and happiness are important and topical subjects, this book will be valuable to social scientists and more generally to readers concerned about where our societies are going nowadays."Geoffrey Hosking, University College London

• Preface1 Introduction: Trust, Happiness, and the History of European Political ThoughtLászló Kontler and Mark SomosPart 1: Trust and Happiness in Theoretical Perspective2 Toleration, Trust and the Travails of Living Together GloballyJohn Dunn3 Ptolemy of Lucca’s Distrust in Politics and the Medieval Discourse on GovernmentBee Yun4 Natural Suspicion and Reasonable Trust: Machiavelli on Trust in PoliticsErica Benner5 Hugo Grotius on Trust, Its Causes and EffectsHans Blom6 Fidem Observandam Esse – Trust and Fear in Hobbes and LockePeter Schröder7 The Concept of Trust in Hobbes’s Political PhilosophyEva Odzuck8 The Formation of Leibniz’s Mature Ethics and His Specimen PolonorumGábor Gángó9 The Secularization of Happiness in Early Eighteenth-century Italian Political Thought: Revisiting the Foundations of Civil SocietyAdriana Luna-Fabritius10 Trust and Happiness in Nikolai Karamzin’s Political PhilosophyVladimir Ryzhkov11 Trust and Happiness in Ferdinand Tönnies’ Community and SocietyNiall Bond12 Distrust in Government: A Comparative Historical AnalysisKálmán PóczaPart 2: Trust as a Function of Political Negotiation13 Trust, Heresy and Rebellion: Reactions to Machiavelli in the Early Dutch Revolt (1572–1587)Alberto Clerici14 Privy Council Deliberations on Trust: The Holy Roman Empire around 1600Hannes Ziegler15 Trust as a Concept of Religious Plurality during the Thirty Years’ War Ralf-Peter Fuchs16 ‘No trust, no happiness’! Going beyond Locke in Seventeenth-century EnglandCesare Cuttica17 Adolf Fischhof and the National Question in the Habsburg Empire: A Problem of ‘trust’ and ‘collaboration’ amongst the Nationalities of Austria (1869–1885)Sara LagiPart 3: Trust and the Culture of Political Behaviour18 Pistis and Citizens in Ancient GreeceSteve Johnstone19 The Concept of Trust in the Political Thought of Fifteenth-century BurgundyPetra Schulte20 “Through the Bonds of Sentiment”: Fraternité and Politics in Revolutionary FranceAdrian O’Connor21 Trust and Distrust in a Modern Dictatorship: A Case Study of the Soviet UnionAlexey TikhomirovIndex

László Kontler, Ph.D. (1996) is Professor of History at Central European University (Budapest). He has published widely on intellectual history, political and historical thought, translation and reception, including Translations, Histories, Enlightenments: William Robertson in Germany, 1765-1795 (Palgrave, 2014)Mark Somos (Ph.D. Harvard, 2007; Ph.D. Lugd. Bat., 2014) is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex Law School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Grotiana.

"This pioneering series of papers illuminates the hitherto little explored relationship between trust and happiness through an examination of both theory and practice over many centuries of history. Since both trust and happiness are important and topical subjects, this book will be valuable to social scientists and more generally to readers concerned about where our societies are going nowadays."Geoffrey Hosking, University College London

• Preface1 Introduction: Trust, Happiness, and the History of European Political ThoughtLászló Kontler and Mark SomosPart 1: Trust and Happiness in Theoretical Perspective2 Toleration, Trust and the Travails of Living Together GloballyJohn Dunn3 Ptolemy of Lucca’s Distrust in Politics and the Medieval Discourse on GovernmentBee Yun4 Natural Suspicion and Reasonable Trust: Machiavelli on Trust in PoliticsErica Benner5 Hugo Grotius on Trust, Its Causes and EffectsHans Blom6 Fidem Observandam Esse – Trust and Fear in Hobbes and LockePeter Schröder7 The Concept of Trust in Hobbes’s Political PhilosophyEva Odzuck8 The Formation of Leibniz’s Mature Ethics and His Specimen PolonorumGábor Gángó9 The Secularization of Happiness in Early Eighteenth-century Italian Political Thought: Revisiting the Foundations of Civil SocietyAdriana Luna-Fabritius10 Trust and Happiness in Nikolai Karamzin’s Political PhilosophyVladimir Ryzhkov11 Trust and Happiness in Ferdinand Tönnies’ Community and SocietyNiall Bond12 Distrust in Government: A Comparative Historical AnalysisKálmán PóczaPart 2: Trust as a Function of Political Negotiation13 Trust, Heresy and Rebellion: Reactions to Machiavelli in the Early Dutch Revolt (1572–1587)Alberto Clerici14 Privy Council Deliberations on Trust: The Holy Roman Empire around 1600Hannes Ziegler15 Trust as a Concept of Religious Plurality during the Thirty Years’ War Ralf-Peter Fuchs16 ‘No trust, no happiness’! Going beyond Locke in Seventeenth-century EnglandCesare Cuttica17 Adolf Fischhof and the National Question in the Habsburg Empire: A Problem of ‘trust’ and ‘collaboration’ amongst the Nationalities of Austria (1869–1885)Sara LagiPart 3: Trust and the Culture of Political Behaviour18 Pistis and Citizens in Ancient GreeceSteve Johnstone19 The Concept of Trust in the Political Thought of Fifteenth-century BurgundyPetra Schulte20 “Through the Bonds of Sentiment”: Fraternité and Politics in Revolutionary FranceAdrian O’Connor21 Trust and Distrust in a Modern Dictatorship: A Case Study of the Soviet UnionAlexey TikhomirovIndex