In the late seventeenth century, Pierre Bayle was as famous as any philosopher in Europe. This volume provides an important new study of Bayle and his notoriously complicated Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, focussing on how his writing was influenced by his heated theological-political conflict with Pierre Jurieu. It is impossible to do justice here to Mara van der Lugt's subtle and detailed analysis of these complex questions as treated in the labyrinthine clusters of Bayle's articles. Her work is certainly a major contribution to our understanding of how the Dictionary works and how it should be read