@inbook{fc892e95ef3d46de9e17da21385037c4,
title = "The Working Methods of Hugo Grotius: Which Sources Did He Use and How Did He Use Them in His Early Writings on Natural Law Theory?",
abstract = "This essay chapter analyses the working methods of the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), particularly his use and referencing of {\textquoteleft}sources{\textquoteright} in his early works on natural law and natural rights. Like most early modern scholars, Grotius garnished his texts with second-hand quotations of authoritative writers (the Classics, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, etc.) and his marginalia with second-hand references to authoritative texts. He often obtained these materials from sixteenth-century florilegia and reference works. A case in point is Grotius{\textquoteright} referencing of Thomas Aquinas{\textquoteright} Summa Theologiae in Ms. BPL 917 in Leiden University Library. When we compare underlined passages in Grotius{\textquoteright} own copy of the Summa Theologiae with his references to Aquinas in Ms. BPL 917, we discover that two Catholic theologians --Thomas Cajetan and Francisco de Vitoria-- served as his reader{\textquoteright}s guides to the Summa Theologiae, and shaped his understanding of Aquinas in crucial respects.",
keywords = "Hugo Grotius, working methods of early modern scholars, secondhand quotations, secondhand references, Thomas Aquinas, Francisco de Vitoria, Thomas Cajetan",
author = "{Van Ittersum}, {Martine J.}",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408851.003.0008",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781474408851",
series = "Edinburgh Studies in Law",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
editor = "{du Plessis}, {Paul J.} and Cairns, {John W.}",
booktitle = "Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims",
address = "United Kingdom",
}
