The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
Janne E. Nijman, Universiteit van Amsterdam
The Cambridge Companion to Grotius offers a comprehensive overview of Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) for students, teachers, and general readers, while its chapters also draw upon and contribute to recent specialised discussions of Grotius' oeuvre and its later reception. Contributors to this volume cover the width and breadth of Grotius' work and thought, ranging from his literary work, including his historical, theological and political writing, to his seminal legal interventions. While giving these various fields a separate treatment, the book also delves into the underlying conceptions and outlooks that formed Grotius' intellectual map of the world as he understood it, and as he wanted it to become, giving a new political and religious context to his forays into international and domestic law.
- Covers the whole width and breadth of Grotius' work in different fields and genres (literature, history, political thought, theology, domestic and international law)
- Renders an integrative approach to his views by teasing out the underlying common conceptions and principles, allowing readers to interrelate them to the political and religious context
- Useful for intellectual historians, international lawyers, legal historians, historians of political thought, historians of theology and religious studies, historians of the Netherlands, literature historians and graduate students of these fields.
Product details
September 2021Hardback
9781107198838
640 pages
235 × 158 × 40 mm
1.08kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Randall Lesaffer and Janne E. Nijman
- Part I: Grotius in Context:
- 2. Life and Intellectual Development. An Introductory Biographical Sketch Henk Nellen
- 3. Grotius as Legal, Political and Diplomatic Official in the Dutch Republic Edwin Rabbie
- 4. Grotius and the East Indies Peter Borschberg
- Part II: Concepts:
- 5. Virtue Mark Somos
- 6. Trust (fides) Peter Schröder
- 7. Natural Law as True Law Meirav Jones
- 8. Sociability Benjamin Straumann
- 9. Sovereignty Guus Van Nifterik
- 10. Church and State Harm-Jan Van Dam
- 11. Predestination Camilla Boisen
- 12. Rights Francesca Iurlaro
- 13. Rights Laurens Winkel
- 14. Property, Trade and Empire Andrew Fitzmaurice
- Part III: Grotius as Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer:
- 15. Literary Writings Arthur Eyffinger
- 16. Historical Writings Jan Waszink
- 17. Theological Writings Oliver O'Donovan
- 18. Political Writings Hans Blom
- Part IV: Grotius as a Legal Scholar:
- 19. Legal Scholastic and Humanist Influences on Grotius Alain Wijffels
- 20.Grotius' Introduction to Hollandic Jurisprudence Wouter Druwé
- 21. The Laws of War- and Peace-Making Randall Lesaffer
- 22. The Law of Armed Conflict Stephen C. Neff
- 23. The Freedom of the Seas William E. Butler
- 24. Property Bart Wauters
- 25. The Law of Contract and Treaties Paolo Astorri
- 26. Punishment and Crime Dennis Klimchuk
- Part V: The Reception of Grotius:
- 27. Grotius and the Enlightenment Marco Barducci
- 28. Grotian Revivals in the Theory and History of International Law Ignacio de la Rasilla
- 29. Grotius in International Relations Theory William Bain.
