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

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

Van Ittersum, Martine Julia

Hardcover

PhilosophyMedieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Law

ISBN10: 9004536000
ISBN13: 9789004536005
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 7 2024
Pages: 706
Weight: 2.67
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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