Martin van Gelderen

Email martin.vangelderen@eui.eu|

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 507
Fax [+39] 055 4685 203

Office rVS 032 - Villa Schifanoia    

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Secretary: Nicky Koniordos|

Tel. [+39] 055 4685594

Prof. van Gelderen receives researchers on Tuesdays, 14.30-17.30 or by appointment

Research Fields

Intellectual History; History of Political Thought, in particular Natural Law Theories and Republican Traditions in Europe; History of Religion, in particular of Toleration in Reformation Europe; Historiography.

Current Research Projects

• New English edition of Hugo Grotius, De Iure Belli ac Pacis/The Rights of War and Peace for the series Cambridge texts in the History of Political Thought.
• That Staple of Sects: Dutch Political Thought in its European Contexts, a study of the interlinkages between Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish political and religious thought in the period between 1500 and 1689, including key figures such as Erasmus, Calvin, Lipsius, Arminius, Grotius and Spinoza.
• From Noah's Ark to the New World, a study of the humanist debate on the origins of the American Indians, focusing on the historical research of scholars such as Acosta, Grotius, De Laet, Hornius, Locke and Montanus.
• Freedom and the Construction of Europe: New Perspectives on Philosophical and Religious Controversies, joint research project with Annabel Brett, Iain Hampsher-Monk and Quentin Skinner.
• Project Boccaccio Intellectual History Programme

Selected Recent Publications

• Georg Schmidt, Martin van Gelderen (eds.), Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen im frühneuzeitlichen Europa (1400 bis 1800) (Peter Lang Verlag, Bern etc., 2005)
• Der Weg der Freiheit. Vom Italien des 15. in die Niederlande des 16.Jahrhunderts’ in Georg Schmidt, Martin van Gelderen (eds.), Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen im frühneuzeitlichen Europa (1400 bis 1800), (Bern etc., 2005)
• Rebels und Royalists: Gewissen, Kirche und Freiheit in England und Holland (1585-1645)’ in Georg Schmidt, Martin van Gelderen (eds.), Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen im frühneuzeitlichen Europa (1400 bis 1800), (Bern etc., 2005)
• Von Universalmonarchie zu Volkssouveränität: Königtum und Kritik unter Karl V.und Philip II.‘ in Bernhard Jüssen, Stefan Weinfurter, Thomas Zotz (eds.), Königsherrschaft in Europa (München, 2005)
• Antwerpen, Emden, London, 1567: Der Streit zwischen Lutheranern und Reformierten über das Widerstandsrecht’ in Luise Schorn-Schütte (ed.), Das Interim 1548/50. Herrschaftskrise und Glaubenskonflikt, (Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte, Bd. 203) (Gütersloh, 2005)
• ‘In Defence of William III: Eric Walten and the Justification of the Glorious Revolution’ in Esther Mijers and David Onnekink (eds.), Redefining William III: Politics and Culture in International Context (Ashgate, 2005)