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    Secularization in De Iure Praedae: from Bible Criticism to International Law.Mark Somos - 2007 - Grotiana 26 (1):147-191.
    This article shows that the conspicuous and consistent idiosyncrasy of Grotius's Biblical interpretation is an important part of his revolutionary effort to secularize natural law. In De iure praedae and related works, Grotius systematically deployed a range of exegetical techniques in order to demonstrate that the Bible, like all texts, is open to multiple interpretations and susceptible to hijacking by rival agendas. This strategy aimed to render the Bible inadmissible as evidence in legal disputes and political legitimacy claims. The consistent (...)
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    Pirating Mare liberum.Mark Somos & Dániel Margócsy - 2017 - Grotiana 38 (1):176-210.
    _ Source: _Volume 38, Issue 1, pp 176 - 210 Two pirated editions form a vital but neglected part of the printing and reception history of the first edition of Grotius’s _Mare liberum_.
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the 1650 Edition.Matthew Cleary, Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Jonathan Nathan, Emanuele Salerno & Mark Somos - 2023 - Grotiana 44 (1):197-216.
    This note studies the 1650 edition of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis. Using online and card catalogues, we have located eighty-nine copies, thirty-seven of which we examined in person, with an additional six fully digitised copies online. We hope that this research note on the preliminary results will generate greater interest in this unduly neglected edition. The note shows how, despite the connection established in the history of seventeenth-century politics that emphasized the ties between Grotius and the Peace (...)
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: Henricus Laurentius’ Re-Issue (1647) of the 1631 Edition.Matthew Cleary, Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Jonathan Nathan, Emanuele Salerno & Mark Somos - 2023 - Grotiana 44 (1):181-196.
    This research note is the eighth instalment in our series of preliminary findings on the census and study of the reception of De iure belli ac pacis. The note presents a bibliographical description of Laurentius’ 1647 re-issue of the 1631 edition by Blaeu, considers Laurentius’ motivation and methods of production, lists and maps the currently known twenty-three surviving copies, and briefly describes two notable exemplars.
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    Grotian Moments, Vol. 3: Introduction.Tom Sparks & Mark Somos - 2023 - Grotiana 44 (1):1-3.
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    Hugo Grotius’s De Iure Belli ac Pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Seventh Edition (1646).Matthew Cleary, Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Jonathan Nathan, Emanuele Salerno & Mark Somos - 2023 - Grotiana 44 (1):154-180.
    This research note offers a contextual overview of the printing history of Johann Blaeu’s 1646 octavo edition of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis (ibp). The note examines the printing process of the last edition that was prepared while Grotius was still alive, though it was published after his death. The note also sheds light on the theological dimension of some readers’ annotations, and concludes by discussing the impact this edition had on the modern versions of the text.
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Fourth Edition (1632, Janssonius).Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Emanuele Salerno, Timothy Twining & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (2):395-411.
    This is the fourth instalment of our census and study of the reception of the first nine editions of De iure belli ac pacis. Here we focus on the two versions that Johannes Janssonius issued in 1632, one with a copy of Mare liberum attached to it. This report outlines the place of the 1632 Janssonius edition in the context of his long-running rivalry with the printer Willem Blaeu and his firm. It then explores the typographical differences between the two (...)
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: a Report on the Worldwide Census of the Second Edition (1626).Edward Jones Corredera, Lara Muschel & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (1):236-245.
    The first edition of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis was published in Paris by Nicolas Buon in 1625. An unauthorised second edition appeared in Frankfurt a year later, from the reputable Wechel press. After Grotius made hundreds of changes to the first and second states of the first edition, and failed to convince the publisher Nicolas Buon of the merits of printing yet another edition of the book, the Wechels’s release of a new edition sought to capitalise on (...)
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: a Report on the Worldwide Census of the First Edition (1625).Edward Jones Corredera, Francesca Iurlaro, Lara Muschel & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (1):208-235.
    This article provides new information on the publication history of the first edition of the text that, according to many scholars, laid the ground for the growth of international law: Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis. Drawing on the preliminary findings of the Grotius Census Project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the following pages shed light on the first three states of the typescript, the (...)
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    Corruption in International Law: Illusions of a Grotian Moment.Simona Ross & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (1):55-86.
    Has there already been a Grotian Moment for corruption? If not, what would it take for new legal rules and doctrines on corruption to crystallise? This article seeks to answer these two questions by reviewing the relevant history of international legal scholarship, the current public international law framework for anticorruption, and recent developments in international legal practice. We conclude that a Grotian Moment may have been reached for a narrow concept of corruption, focused on petty corruption and bribery, with the (...)
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: a Report on the Worldwide Census of the Third Edition (1631).Edward Jones Corredera, Lara Muschel & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (1):246-272.
    Hugo Grotius’s best-known work, De iure belli ac pacis, appeared in 1625 in Paris with the author’s approval. A second unauthorised version was published in 1626 in Frankfurt. In 1631 the Amsterdam publisher, Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638), issued the third edition, this one authorised by the author – and this edition featured nearly a thousand revisions by Grotius. The purpose of this report is to analyse the context behind the publication of this third edition and the copies’ provenance records. Using (...)
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Fifth Edition (1632, Blaeu).Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Emanuele Salerno, Timothy Twining & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (2):412-436.
    This article provides new information on the printing and readership history of the fifth edition of De iure belli ac pacis. Building on our earlier research on the way that the dispute between Willem Janszoon Blaeu and Johannes Janssonius influenced the publication of the 1631 edition of the text, this article studies how Blaeu harnessed his position to make the 1632 edition more reputable than the earlier version published by his rival. The article considers how, over four centuries, readers have (...)
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    Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Sixth Edition (1642, Blaeu).Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Emanuele Salerno, Timothy Twining & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (2):437-464.
    This article constitutes the sixth instalment in our series on the census and study of the reception of the first nine editions of De iure belli ac pacis. This edition has long held a prominent place in studies and editions of Grotius’s work since it was the last published during his lifetime. The report first outlines the genesis of the edition in the context of Grotius’s relationship with Johann Blaeu (1596–1673) and Cornelius Blaeu (1610–1642), who had recently inherited the Blaeu (...)
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    A century of “Hate and Coarse Thinking”: anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism in H.G. Wells’ The New Machiavelli (1911).Mark Somos - 2011 - History of European Ideas 37 (2):137-152.
    Wells's The New Machiavelli (1911) offers an excellent case study of the use of anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism as both a philosophical and a rhetorical strategy. In Remington, Wells creates a protagonist who follows Machiavellian rules of behaviour and denounces those who do likewise. The novel is structured to show Remington's progress from an idealist refutation of Machiavellism, through a recognition of its necessity, to the formulation of a private and political method for the necessary pursuit of Machiavellian principles under the disguise (...)
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    Beyond Minimalism.Mark Somos - 2014 - Grotiana 35 (1):119-157.
    _ Source: _Volume 35, Issue 1, pp 119 - 157 This paper offers an interpretation of De veritate that resolves its ostensible self-contradictions and uncovers its coherence when it is read as a text designed primarily with an irenic purpose, a didactic method, and having a secularising effect regardless of the author’s intention.The article has seven sections: Introduction; Proofs of Religious Truth ; Religious Practice ; Distinctive Christian Truths ; Proofs from Providential History, Aspects of Reception; and Conclusion: Christianity according (...)
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    Enter secularisation: Heinsius's De tragoediae constitutione.Mark Somos - 2010 - History of European Ideas 36 (1):19-38.
    In his De tragoediae constitutione (1611) Heinsius rearranged the text of Aristotle's Poetics, and built on it a new general theory of drama, literature and speech. The new system was designed to render Christian exemplars and Christian theories of internalisation, pedagogy and motivation impossible to maintain, and thereby sidestep one of the most divisive issues in the intellectual debates of the Reformation. Irenicist secularisation is a major cause of Heinsius's impact on German, English and French literary theory. ☆ I would (...)
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  17. Introduction.Mark Somos & Anne Peters - 2022 - In Mark Somos & Anne Peters (eds.), The state of nature: histories of an idea. Boston: Brill Nijhoff.
     
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    Saint Augustine of Hippo, step-father of liberalism.Mark Somos - 2010 - History of European Ideas 36 (2):237-250.
    Ostensible contradictions between Augustine's account of the two cities are resolved by his concealed claim to the privileged epistemic status of a Christian prophet. Faith and grace provide the mobility between this quasi-divine and the fallen human position. Such mobility is impossible in a pluralist and secular system of thought. This is why, having lost the creative Augustinian ambiguity, the liberal philosophy of history and norms of relationship between state and individual continue to veer between the logical end-points of anarchy (...)
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    The state of nature: histories of an idea.Mark Somos & Anne Peters (eds.) - 2022 - Boston: Brill Nijhoff.
    The phrase, "state of nature", has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and hell, interstate relations, and the locus of pre- and supra-political rights, such as the right to resistance, to property, to create and leave polities, and the freedom of religion, speech, and opinion, which may be reactivated or reprioritised when the polity and its laws fail. Combining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on (...)
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    The Unseen History of International Law: A Census Bibliography of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis.Mark Somos - 2019 - Grotiana 40 (1):173-179.
    This research note announces and briefly describes a new five-year project to prepare a census bibliography of the first ten editions of Grotus’s De iure belli ac pacis. The resulting book will be published in 2025, the 400th anniversary of ibp’s first appearance. The project is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
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    Vitoria, Suárez, and Grotius: James Brown Scott’s Enduring Revival.Mark Somos & Joshua Smeltzer - 2020 - Grotiana 41 (1):137-162.
    This article recovers James Brown Scott’s conviction in American exceptionalism, a belief that underlay both his institutional work as well as his understanding of the origins and trajectory of international law. In the first section, we discuss Scott’s interpretation of Hugo Grotius as part of his tactic to make US foreign affairs policies and perspectives more compelling by presenting them as universal. In the second section, we argue that Scott’s writings on the Spanish origins of international law were in fact (...)
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    Grotian Moments, Vol. 2: Introduction.Tom Sparks & Mark Somos - 2022 - Grotiana 43 (1):1-2.
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