Book contents
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Law and Christianity
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Law, Christianity, and Secularization in the Low Countries
- 1 Alger of Liège
- 2 Arnoldus Gheyloven
- 3 Boëtius Epo
- 4 Leonardus Lessius
- 5 Franciscus Zypaeus
- 6 Hugo Grotius
- 7 Paulus Voet
- 8 Ulrik Huber
- 9 Zeger-Bernard van Espen
- 10 Dionysius van der Keessel
- 11 Pieter Paulus
- 12 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer
- 13 Edouard Ducpétiaux
- 14 Charles Périn
- 15 Léon de Lantsheere
- 16 Paul Scholten
- 17 Willem Duynstee
- 18 Jules Storme
- 19 Herman Dooyeweerd
- 20 Josse Mertens de Wilmars
- Index
- References
6 - Hugo Grotius
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2021
Book contents
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Law and Christianity
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Law, Christianity, and Secularization in the Low Countries
- 1 Alger of Liège
- 2 Arnoldus Gheyloven
- 3 Boëtius Epo
- 4 Leonardus Lessius
- 5 Franciscus Zypaeus
- 6 Hugo Grotius
- 7 Paulus Voet
- 8 Ulrik Huber
- 9 Zeger-Bernard van Espen
- 10 Dionysius van der Keessel
- 11 Pieter Paulus
- 12 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer
- 13 Edouard Ducpétiaux
- 14 Charles Périn
- 15 Léon de Lantsheere
- 16 Paul Scholten
- 17 Willem Duynstee
- 18 Jules Storme
- 19 Herman Dooyeweerd
- 20 Josse Mertens de Wilmars
- Index
- References
Summary
Hugo de Groot (alias Hugo Grotius, 1583–1645) lived his entire life during the Dutch Revolt (1568–1648) against Spain. This revolt was importantly about maintaining local privileges and autonomy against the Habsburg centralization politics but also about the profession of the new Reformed religion in the Low Countries. Particularly in Grotius’s native Holland, the Reformed religion traditionally had included ‘strict’ (‘precise’, precieze, later also called Calvinist) and ‘moderate’ (‘pliable’, rekkelijke, later also called Arminian) denominations. The consolidation of the Dutch Republic as an independent power and the simultaneous controversies between the various Reformed denominations that were tearing his native Holland apart would crucially shape Grotius’s life and work.
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