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 and translation 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.

• ‘The Autumn of Humanism: the political and religious debates of Hugo Grotius’, a monograph studying the main debates in the life and work of Grotius, exploring some of the interlinkages between Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish political and religious thought in the late 16th and 17th century.

• ‘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, co-directed with Quentin Skinner. For more information see http://freedomeurope.wordpress.com

• 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)

• So meerly humane': Theories of Resistance in Early Modern Europe’ in Annabel Brett and James Tully (eds.), Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge, 2006, pp. 149-170

• ‘The Low Countries: The Quest for Concord’, in Glenn Burgess, Howell Lloyd and Simon Hodson (eds.), European Political Thought 1450-1700: Religion, Law and Philosophy, New Haven. Conn/London, 2007, pp. 376-415

• “Hot Protestantism”. Die Rhetorik und politische Sprache der englischen und niederländischen Calvinisten’, in Ansgar Reiss and Sabine Witt (eds.), Calvinismus. Die Reformierten in Deutchland und Europa, Dresden, 2009, pp. 189-195

• Menschenrechte und Demokratie - James Madison, Hugo Grotius und die Probleme des neuen Europa’, Gerald-Stourzh-Vorlesung 2009, http://www.univie.ac.at/gerald-stourzh-vorlesungen/