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| Publication date |
2021
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| Host editors |
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| Book title |
The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
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| ISBN |
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9781107198838
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9781316648315
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| ISBN (electronic) |
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9781108182751
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9781108196062
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| Series |
Cambridge Companions to Law
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1
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| Pages (from-to) |
1-14
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| Publisher |
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Law (FdR) - Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
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| Abstract |
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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| Document type |
Chapter
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| Language |
English
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| Related publication |
The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182751.003
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