Hugo Grotius's on Public Partnership with Unbelievers (de Societate Publica Cum Infidelibus): Introduction, Transcription and English Translation - Paperback

by Diederik Burgersdijk (Volume Editor), Henk J. M. Nellen (Volume Editor), Marc de Wilde (Volume Editor)

In this hitherto unpublished treatise, Grotius examines what kinds of partnerships between Christians and non-Christians are legally permissible. This edition provides a critical introduction and an annotated Latin text with English translation.

Author Biography

Diederik Burgersdijk, Ph.D. (2010), University of Amsterdam, is a lecturer in classics and ancient history at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the rhetoric and historiography of the later Roman empire, with a special interest in the reception of antiquity in later eras. His most recent co-edited volume is Constantinople Through the Ages: The Visible City from its Foundation to Contemporary Istanbul (Brill, 2025).

Henk Nellen, Ph.D. (1980), Catholic University of Nijmegen, is a guest researcher at the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam. He co-edited the final five of the seventeen volumes in the series of Hugo Grotius's correspondence. In 2007, he completed a biography of Grotius (English translation published by Brill, 2014). In 2021, he published a second biographical study: Geen vredestichter is zonder tegensprekers. Hugo de Groot, geleerde, staatsman, verguisd verzoener (Athenaeum, 2021).

Marc de Wilde, Ph.D. (2008), University of Amsterdam, is a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam with a focus on the history of legal thought. He has published several articles on Grotius, including on his letters to East-Indian rulers and his draft regulations for Jews.