This chapter discusses what texts containing political thought were translated in early modern Europe and what this says about society and culture. Translation reveals much about intellectual and moral boundaries in early modern Europe, and how porous they were. There was relatively little political thought translated between Eastern and Western Europe, although this may not reflect incommensurability between the two, but rather the continued importance of Latin in the East, where there was a greater density of vernacular languages within the same states and empires. Also, what was translated reveals the importance of the monarch in early modern Europe, and the fact that political ideas often centred on that figure or those who served him.