Critical study of Hugo Grotiuss 'Historia Gotthorum' and 'De origine gentium Americanarum' from an ideological and methodological perspective. KU Leuven
Firstly, this study aims to offer a modern critical edition of Hugo Grotius’s ‘Prolegomena’ to Historia Gotthorum, with an English translation and commentaries.
Secondly, the ideological dimension of Grotius’s Historia Gotthorum is explored through a study of the text as a representative of a broader European tradition of national historiography that linked early modern countries to the ancient tribes of Europe in view ...