Jeff Collins received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999 and is a professor of history at Queen’s University in Canada. He has published numerous articles on early modern religion, politics, and political thought, and is the author of “The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes” (OUP, 2005), and “In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience” (CUP, 2020). He is currently working on an intellectual history of the Eikon Basilike, and the volume covering the 17th century in the new Oxford History of Political Thought.