Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Short Titles of Works by Grotius
- Editions and Translations of Grotius’ Work
- Introduction
- Part I Grotius in Context
- Part II Concepts
- Part III Grotius as a Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer
- Part IV Grotius as a Legal Scholar
- Part V The Reception of Grotius
- Index
- References
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Short Titles of Works by Grotius
- Editions and Translations of Grotius’ Work
- Introduction
- Part I Grotius in Context
- Part II Concepts
- Part III Grotius as a Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer
- Part IV Grotius as a Legal Scholar
- Part V The Reception of Grotius
- Index
- References
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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- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius , pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Major Works on Grotius
Blom, H. (ed.), Property, Piracy and Punishment. Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae – Concepts and Contexts (Leiden and Boston, 2009) [= Grotiana N.S. 26–8 (2005–7)].Google Scholar
Bull, H., Kinsbury, B. and Roberts, A. (eds.), Hugo Grotius and International Relations (Oxford 1990).Google Scholar
Geddert, J.S., Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom (London and New York, 2017).Google Scholar
Lévesque de Burigny, J., Vie de Grotius, avec l’histoire de ses ouvrages (Amsterdam, 1754).Google Scholar
Nellen, H., Hugo Grotius. A Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State, 1583–1645 (Leiden and Boston, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Onuma, Y. (ed.), A Normative Approach to War. Peace, War, and Justice in Hugo Grotius (Oxford, 1993).Google Scholar
Straumann, B., Roman Law in the State of Nature. The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law (Cambridge, 2015).Google Scholar
Stumpf, C.A., The Grotian Theology of International Law. Hugo Grotius and the Moral Foundations of International Relations (Berlin, 2006).Google Scholar
Ter Meulen, J. and Diermanse, P.J.J., Bibliographie des écrits imprimés de Hugo Grotius (The Hague, 1950).Google Scholar
Ter Meulen, J. and Diermanse, P.J.J., Bibliographie des écrits sur Hugo Grotius imprimées au XVIIe siècle (The Hague, 1961).Google Scholar
Tuck, R., The Rights of War and Peace. Political Thought and International Order from Grotius to Kant (Oxford, 1999).Google Scholar
Van Beresteyn, E.A., Iconographie van Hugo Grotius. Met 65 portretten gedeeltelijk in lichtdruk (The Hague, 1929).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Ittersum, M.J., Profit and Principle. Hugo Grotius, Natural Rights and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies (1595–1615) (Leiden and Boston, 2006).Google Scholar