The great Dutch scholar of the seventeenth century, author of De Jure Belli ac Pacis, is followed from his precocious youth through the Remonstrant quarrels, his imprisonment at Loevestein and his escape hidden in a chest of books, to his later years as Swedish ambassador in Paris. Butler threads brief minutes of Dutch civil, church and literary history through the life.
An 1826 portrait of the father of international law by a learned English Catholic lawyer, for readers of legal and Dutch history. Download the free EPUB.