Hugo Grotius, de Imperio Summarum Potestatum Circa Sacra : : Critical Edition with Introduction, English Translation and Commentary. Volume 1.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
• VerfasserIn: van Dam, Harm-Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.; ©2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (636 pages)

This book contains the mature fruit of Hugo Grotius' political thought on church and state. It was finished in 1617, but Grotius' arrest prevented publication. For the first time Grotius' own Latin text is printed here, from two manuscripts. It is demonstrated that the claims made by the publisher of the first edition (1647), the source of all subsequent editions, are false. The first critical edition is provided with an extensive introduction, an English translation, a commentary, and elaborate indices. In an appendix texts concerning its context and genesis are printed. An earlier draft of De imperio was recently discovered. All material from this unpublished work has been integrated here. This fundamental, theoretical text, written for an international public, anticipates many views from later Grotian work.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Volume I -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. General Introduction -- a. De imperio: General -- b. Background to De imperio: Church and Magistrate in Holland -- c. Grotius and His Writings in the Political Conflicts of 1613-1618 -- 2. The process of writing De imperio -- 3. Sources for the text -- I. Manuscripts -- 1. Tractatus de iure magistratuum circa ecclesiastica -- 2. De imperio -- a. Two manuscripts written in the Leiden College of Divinity -- b. Three Parisian manuscripts -- c. Two English manuscripts -- c.1. Provenance of the English manuscripts -- d. Lost manuscripts -- e. Relationships between the manuscripts -- e.1. The three Parisian manuscripts P, A and R -- e.2. The two English manuscripts S and O -- e.3. The two Leiden manuscripts Hand M -- II. Editions -- 1. The first edition, 1647 -- 2. The second edition, 1648 -- 3. The third and later editions -- 4. Extract -- 5. Translations -- 6. Relationships between editions and manuscripts -- 7. The relationship between the first and the second edition -- 4. Reception -- 5. Sources of De imperio -- a. Introduction -- b. General -- c. Specific sources -- I. Manuscripts -- II. Books -- 1. Legal authors up to 1500 -- 2. Councils, Confessions -- 3. Medieval theologians, scholastic authors -- 4. Contemporary authors -- 6. Editorial principles and plan of the edition -- a. Text -- b. Translation -- c. Apparatus of Testimonia -- d. Critical apparatus -- e. Blondel's notes -- f. Commentary -- g. Sigla -- h. Concordance of De imperio and Tractatus de iure magistratuum -- Text with Apparatus and Translation -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12.