| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 827 pages, 84 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
| Contents |
Preface; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Illustrations; 1 Introduction; Hugo de Groot: A World-Famous Scholar; A Biography; Some Main Lines: A Troubled Triangular Relationship; Terminology; Chapter 2 Childhood and Youth (1583-99); Ancestry; Grotius' Earliest Childhood; Grotius as a Student; The French Journey (1598); Chapter 3 On the Way to Adulthood (1599-1607); Scholarly Activities, Relations with Johan van Oldenbarnevelt; Leiden Friends: Heinsius, Meursius and Baudius; Grotius and Simon Stevin; 'De republica emendanda'; Advocate in The Hague |
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Relations with Johannes WtenbogaertThe Bankruptcy of Jan de Groot; Family Life; Chapter 4 Advocate-Fiscal (1607-13); De iure praedae as a Step towards the Advocate-Fiscalship; Grotius as Advocate-Fiscal; Maria van Reigersberch; Peace or Truce?; Mare liberum and De antiquitate; Administrative Duties; Relationship with the Stadholder Maurice; A Poem for Hendrik Delmanhorst; Leiden Friends: Scaliger, Baudius and Heinsius; Chapter 5 A Budding Politician (1609-13); The Troubles of the Truce Years; The Death of Jacobus Arminius; Johannes Wtenbogaert; Conradus Vorstius; Meletius |
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Leiden Friends: Petrus Bertius and Petrus CunaeusPolitical Complications (1611-13); The English Journey (1613); Discussions with the King and Other Great Men at the English Court; Return; Chapter 6 Pensionary of Rotterdam (1613-16); The Pensionary's Office as a Turning Point; The Appointment; Rotterdam; Family Life; Ordinum pietas; The Aftermath; Three Letters from 1614; Political Career; Chapter 7 An Intellectual in a Time of Revolution (1616-18); Political and Scholarly Activities; Adolphus Venator, A Hunter for the Truth; Hubbub in The Hague; Troublesome Missions: Oudewater and After |
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De satisfactioneDe imperio circa sacra; English Connections; French Policy; The Approach of the National Synod; The Denouement; Chapter 8 Trial and Imprisonment (1618-21); The Road to Arrest; Arrest and Imprisonment; The Trial; Loevestein; A Brother's Services; The Escape; Chapter 9 Exile (1621-25); Paris, a Refuge in a Turbulent World; Family Life; Grotius and the French Political Authorities; Developments in French Calvinism; Remonstrants in Exile; Disquisitio an pelagiana sint; Verantwoordingh; Grotius and Charenton; Introduction to the Learned World of Paris. The Cabinet Dupuy |
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The 'fratres tergemini'De iure belli ac pacis; Chapter 10 Exile (1625-31); The Change of Power in 1625; Financial Uncertainties; Negotiations; Maria and Nicolaes van Reigersberch as Grotius' Advocates; Exile in Practice. Grotius' View of France; Contacts with French Arminians; A Troubled Relationship: Grotius and Daniel Heinsius; A New Friendship: Grotius and Claude Saumaise; An Old Friend: Johannes Wtenbogaert; De veritate and other Scholarly Publications; Plans for Return; Chapter 11 Intermezzo in Holland (1631-32); Unexpected Return; Amsterdam's Hospitality |
| Summary |
This biography offers a detailed portrait of the famous humanist scholar Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), jurist, politician, Neo-Latin poet and Christian apologist, on the basis of his voluminous correspondence |
| Notes |
Original Dutch edition published by Balans in 2007 under the title: Hugo de Groot : een leven in strijd om de vrede, 1583-1645 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 765-806) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed January 11, 2019) |
| Subject |
Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
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| SUBJECT |
Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645 fast |
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Church and state -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
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Statesmen -- Netherlands -- Biography
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LAW -- International.
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Church and state
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Statesmen
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Netherlands -- Church history -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090973
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Netherlands
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Church history
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grayson, J. C. (J. Chris), translator.
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| ISBN |
9789004281790 |
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9004281797 |
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