Hobbes and History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Common abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Hobbes and history -- 1 Hobbes's concept of history -- 2 When Hobbes needed history -- 3 Hobbes and historiography: Why the future, he says, does not exist -- 4 Hobbes, history and wisdom -- 5 Hobbes's uses of the history of philosophy -- Part II Hobbesian histories -- 6 Hobbes and Tacitus -- 7 The peace of silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War -- 8 Hobbes's Behemoth -- 9 Hobbes and sacred history -- 10 Hobbes, Selden, Erastianism, and the history of the Jews -- Index.