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Erasing the Corporate Sovereign Inter-Textuality and an Alternative Explanation for the Publication of Hugo Grotius' Mare Liberum (1609)

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Eric Wilson
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There is no generally accepted explanation as to why Mare Liberum, or The Free Sea, was written. The most common view is that the Text was a propaganda instrument designed to improve the position of the United Provinces during the truce negotiations with Spain from 1606–08. Central to Grotius' strategy was his reliance upon Iberian Scholastics as a means of providing a series of irrefutable propositions to the Spaniards.

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Itinerario , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , July 2006 , pp. 78 - 103
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2006

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