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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

By
Randall Lesaffer  and
Janne E. Nijman
Edited by
Randall Lesaffer  and
Janne E. Nijman
Randall Lesaffer
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Janne E. Nijman
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

Grotius lived through a time of great upheaval in Europe as well as in his country of birth, the Dutch Republic. The religious, political and constitutional convulsions that struck the Republic destroyed Grotius' career but also, in combination with fundamental changes in the intellectual outlook of early seventeenth-century Europe formed his views of God, nature, society, politics and law. This chapter introduces the extraordinary polymath Grotius was from the perspective of this background and offers a map to the five parts of this volume, and their respective chapters.

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Grotiusinternational lawhistory of international lawnatural rightstheologypolitical thoughtlaw of nationsnatural lawjurisprudence
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The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius , pp. 1 - 14
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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