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18 - Legal Scholastic and Humanist Influences on Grotius

from Part IV - Grotius as a Legal Scholar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

By
Alain Wijffels
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

Confronting the successful state Holland with the rogue state Spain, Grotius develops a comparative politics pointing to concordia and justice as conditions for sustainable political order, characterized by its constitution. When it comes to the management of church and religion in the state, from a broadly Erastian position, Grotius reconstructs the (biblical) history of the administration of religion to conclude that it unreservedly is in the care of the supreme authorities, even if it can be delegated. Yet, religious convictions cannot be forced, and religious beliefs differ over the globe. At the same time, the relativity that pervades his ars politica can be seen as contained within a unifying conception of what the demands of politics are.

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Grotiuslegal scholarshiplegal methodologyhumanismpost-glossatorspublic governanceinternational governancelegal authorities
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The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius , pp. 387 - 408
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Borschberg, P., Hugo Grotius ‘Commentarius in Theses XI’. An Early Treatise on Sovereignty, the Just War, and the Legitimacy of the Dutch Revolt (Bern et al., 1994).Google Scholar
Feenstra, R., ‘L’influence de la scolastique espagnole sur Grotius en droit privé: quelques expériences dans des questions de fond et de forme, concernant notamment les doctrines de l’erreur et de l’enrichissement sans cause’, in Feenstra, R., Fata Iuris Romani. Etudes d’histoire du droit (Leiden, 1974), 338–63 [originally published in 1973].Google Scholar
Feenstra, R., ‘Quelques remarques sur les sources utilisées par Grotius dans ses travaux de droit naturel’, in The World of Grotius (1583–1645). Proceedings of the International Colloquium organized by the Grotius Committee of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Rotterdam 6–9 April 1983 (Amsterdam and Maarssen, 1984), 65–81.Google Scholar
Feenstra, R., ‘The Most Usable Editions of Grotius’ Main Legal Works’, Grotiana N.S. 11 (1990) 66–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feenstra, R., ‘La systématique du droit dans l’oeuvre de Grotius’, in Feenstra, R., Legal Scholarship and Doctrines of Private Law, 13th–18th Centuries (Aldershot, 1996), 333–43, No. VII [reprinted from La sistematica giuridica: Storia, teoria e problemi attuali (Biblioteca internazionale di cultura 22; Rome, 1991).Google Scholar
Haggenmacher, P., Grotius et la doctrine de la guerre juste (Paris, 1983).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sampson, J., The Historical Foundations of Grotius’ Analysis of Delict (Leiden and Boston, 2018).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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