Hugo Grotius’s Remonstrantie of 1615 Facsimile, Transliteration, Modern Translations and Analysis

David Kromhout, "Hugo Grotius’s Remonstrantie of 1615: Facsimile, Transliteration, Modern Translations and Analysis"
English | ISBN: 9004396071 | 2019 | 244 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Grotius wrote the Remonstrantie around 1615 at the request of the States of Holland, to define the conditions under which Jews were to be admitted to the Dutch Republic. At that time, he was already an internationally recognized legal expert in civic and canonic law. The position taken by Grotius with respect to the admission of the Jews was strongly connected with the religious and political tensions existing in the Dutch Republic of the early 17th century. The