{"title":"Books by Hugo Grotius","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780865975156","title":"Truth of the Christian Religion","description":"Grotius's \"The Truth of the Christian Religion\" was first published in Leiden in 1627 in Latin. Written in a plain and direct language for his countrymen, this short work aimed to show those who would encounter pagans, Muslims, and Jews that the Christian religion was the true revealed religion. In addition to \"fortifying\" the beliefs of his fellow Christians, the treatise intended to convince non-Christians of \"the reasonableness of believing and embracing the Christian Religion above any other.\" Editor Maria Rosa Antognazza suggests that \"Grotius claimed the superiority of Christian doctrine and morality and their perfect conformity with the teaching of the most enlightened reason, and at the same time he advocated tolerance for all positive religions. . . . Grotius rejected the use of any kind of violence, proclaiming that the weapons appointed for the soldiers of Christ are . . . proper to the Spirit.' . . . Moreover, in an era of bloody and violent confrontations amongst the different Christian confessions, Grotius raised a forceful appeal 'to mutual agreement'. All Christians should remember that they 'were baptised into the same Name', that of Jesus Christ, and that 'therefore there ought to be no Sects or Divisions amongst them'.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295114670453,"sku":"9780865975156","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780865975156_088baf79-4159-4f21-96c9-7729ec7bc167.jpg?v=1786015941"},{"product_id":"9781616192792","title":"The Illustrious Hugo Grotius of the Law of Warre and Peace","description":"The first English translation of De Jure Belli et Pacis Libre Tres (by Clement Barksdale). In this momentous work Grotius describes situations in which war is a valid tool of law enforcement and outlines principles for the use of force. Though based on Christian natural law, Grotius advances the novel argument that his system would still be valid if it lacked a divine basis. In this regard he points to the future by moving international law in a secular direction.This 1655 edition is the first English translation of De Jure Belli et Pacis Libre Tres (1625). Barksdale's edition \"is perceived to be part of a larger movement in England aimed partly at setting out an ideological alternative to reformation proposals under discussion and to clarifying the relations between civil and ecclesiastical authority in England\" (Butler, xii).      \"Barksdale became a veritable \"Grotian\" factory, the full measure of which has never been appreciated.\" --WILLIAM E. BUTLER, xii     HUGO GROTIUS [1583-1645], a pre-eminent contributor to international legal doctrine, was an influential Dutch jurist, philosopher and theologian. Grotius is also known for Mare Liberum (1609), which argues against territorial sovereignty of the seas.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304638296437,"sku":"9781616192792","price":48.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781616192792_205acf06-bb5b-46f7-a5d2-ef9f60b1f66f.jpg?v=1786023591"},{"product_id":"de-iure-belli-ac-pacis-libri-tres","title":"De iure belli ac pacis libri tres","description":"Hugo Grotius (de Groot), geb. 1583 in Delft, publizierte im Jahr 1625 im Pariser Exil sein Hauptwerk De iure belli ac pacis libri tres (Drei Bücher über das Recht im Krieg und Frieden), das schlagartig ein Erfolg wurde. Grotius entwickelt darin ein auf die Vernunft begründetes Naturrechtssystem als Basis für das Zusammenleben der Völker und Staaten, deren rechtliches Verhältnis er im Grunde nach privatrechtlichen Grundsätzen deutete. Es besteht weitgehende Einigkeit darüber, dass es sich bei diesem Werk um einen klassischen Schlüsseltext der europäischen Rechtsgeschichte handelt. Der Hamburger Völkerrechtshistoriker Karl-Heinz Ziegler nannte das Buch \"a concave mirror collecting the light of the past and passing on a concentrated beam to the future\". An den Universitäten der frühen Neuzeit in den Niederlanden, Deutschland und Schweden wurde das Buch im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert zur Grundlage des akademischen Unterrichts über Naturrecht. Eine erste deutsche Übersetzung stammte von Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz aus dem Jahr 1707 (mit einer Vorrede von Christian Thomasius). Es folgte eine kommentierte Übersetzung von Johann Nicolaus Serlin 1709. Julius H. von Kirchmann besorgte 1869 eine weitere deutsche Fassung. In starker Abhängigkeit von dieser Übersetzung veranstaltete Walter Schätzel 1950 eine Ausgabe. 400 Jahre nach der Erstveröffentlichung erscheint hiermit erstmals eine lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe des ersten der drei Bücher.   Band II wird voraussichtlich 2028, Band III voraussichtlich 2029 erscheinen.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680062054773,"sku":"9783161633928","price":143.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-hugo-grotius.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}