A reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; engaging with reception studies as a whole, and exploring how seventeenth-century English debate contributed to wider European thought.

• Introduction


• Part I: State, Resistance, Government


• 1: Contract, Allegiance, and Protection


• 2: War, Resistance, Revolution


• 3: Republicanism and Ancient Constitutionalism


• Part II: State, Church, and Religion


• 4: State and Church


• 5: Church Government


• Part III: Property and Empire


• 6: Property


• 7: Empire


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

After a few years spent teaching and researching at the University of Florence, Marco Barducci has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Luigi Firpo Centre for Research on Political Thought. His research focuses on the exchange and reception of political ideas between England, the Netherlands, and Italy in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. In 2015, he published a monograph, Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought, 1648-50.