Martin van Gelderen

Dean of Studies

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 507/594
Fax [+39] 055 4685 203

Email martin.vangelderen@eui.eu

Secretary: Sergio Amadei

Office VS 032 - Villa Schifanoia 

EUI HEC Department
via Boccaccio 121 
50133 Florence - Italy   

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

Fields of Research

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.

Languages

Dutsch, English, German, French, Italian, Castilian

Current Seminars at EUI

Fear in European History (with Prof H.G. Haupt) - Fall Term 2010/2011

New Themes in Cultural History (with Profs G. Calvi and  L. Molà) - Fall Term 2010/2011

Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought - Spring Term 2010/2011

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

• 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/

• “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

• ‘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

• 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

• Georg Schmidt, Martin van Gelderen (eds.), Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen im frühneuzeitlichen Europa (1400 bis 1800) (Peter Lang Verlag, Bern etc., 2005)