The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: Transmission, Dispersal, and Loss, 1604–1864

Martine Van Ittersum

doi:10.1163/9789004536029

The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: Transmission, Dispersal, and Loss, 1604–1864

Martine Van Ittersum

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Abstract

The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius is the first full-length study of the handwritten documents initially used by the author of Mare Liberum (1609) and De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625) in his day-to-day activities as a scholar, lawyer, and politician, but subsequently incorporated into his own or other archives. Martine van Ittersum reconstructs a process of transmission, dispersal and loss that started during Grotius’ lifetime and ended with the papers’ auction in 1864. This is also a study of archival afterlives. Our understanding of Grotius’ life and work is shaped by the conscious decisions of previous generations to retain or discard documents, frequently for the sake of individual lives and careers, family honour and/or larger political and religious ends.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Number of pages	705
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004536029
ISBN (Print)	9789004536005
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004536029
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2024

Publication series

Name	Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publisher	Brill Academic Publlshers
Volume	343
ISSN (Print)	0920-8607
ISSN (Electronic)	0920-8607

Keywords

Book History
Materiality of Texts
Hugo Grotius
Archival History
Legal History
History of Canon Formation in the West
History of Political Theory
Republic of Letters
Remonstrants

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