Frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’s LeviathanCharles I at his trial, by Edward BowerDetail of the damned, by Luca Signorelli

Abraham Bosse, Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, 1651.

Alison McQueen

Stanford University

I'm a political theorist and historian of political thought at Stanford University. My research explores questions of political authority in times of crisis. I write primarily on apocalyptic politics, religion and politics, and treason.