Hugo Grotius's on Public Partnership with Unbelievers (de Societate Publica Cum Infidelibus)

Introduction, Transcription and English Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74458-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 5, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

In this hitherto unpublished treatise, Hugo Grotius examines what kinds of partnerships between Christians and non-Christians are legally permissible. These include public partnerships, such as treaties and alliances, but also private associations, such as commercial contracts, marriages, and relations of servitude. Grotius’s treatise is indispensable for understanding his ideas about legal relations between Christians and non-Christians, both in international and domestic contexts. This is the first edition of the annotated Latin text with an English translation and introduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Burgersdijk, Diederik

Nellen, Henk J.M.

de Wilde, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Diederik Burgersdijk, Ph.D. (2010), University of Amsterdam, is a lecturer in classics and ancient history at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the rhetoric and historiography of the later Roman empire, with a special interest in the reception of antiquity in later eras. His most recent co-edited volume is Constantinople Through the Ages: The Visible City from its Foundation to Contemporary Istanbul (Brill, 2025).

Henk Nellen, Ph.D. (1980), Catholic University of Nijmegen, is a guest researcher at the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam. He co-edited 17 volumes on the last five volumes of Hugo Grotius’s correspondence. In 2007, he completed a biography of Grotius (English translation published by Brill, 2014). In 2021, he published a second biographical study: Geen vredestichter is zonder tegensprekers. Hugo de Groot, geleerde, staatsman, verguisd verzoener (Athenaeum, 2021).

Marc de Wilde, Ph.D. (2008), University of Amsterdam, is a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam with a focus on the history of legal thought. He has published several articles on Grotius, including on his letters to East-Indian rulers and his draft regulations for Jews.