Martine Julia Van Ittersum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martine Julia Van Ittersum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martine Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Ittersum |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ITTERSUM M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2320-1879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Agents of European overseas empires: Private colonisers, 1450–1800, edited by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L.H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Agnès Delahaye
Martti Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870
Guillaume Calafat, Une mer jalousée: Contribution à l’histoire de la souveraineté (Méditerranée, XVIIe siècle)
Christopher Joby, The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and C…
The Dutch Language in Japan is Joby's most ambitious project so far. The question he seeks to answer is 'what happened when Dutch came into contact with other languages in Tokugawa Japan?' (4). His approach is primarily a linguistic one. The monograph analyses 'the extent to which the contact between Dutch and other languages in Japan, above all varieties of Japanese, led to interference in these languages on a lexical, syntactic and graphic leve…
Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664
Gateways to Empire is a comparative study of French and Dutch imperial expansion into North America in the early modern period. Based on Weeks’ doctoral dissertation, its main focus is the development of Quebec and New Amsterdam from fur trading towns into ‘gateways’ of European settlement colonies. This monograph consists of an introduction, nine chapters, a conclusion, a bibliography, and an index. In the introduction, the author sets the follo…
Debating the Free Sea in London, Paris, The Hague and Venice: The publication of John Selden’s Mare Clausum (1635) and its diplomatic repercussions in Western Europe
Politics, religion and legal argumentation were inextricably intertwined in the reception of John Selden’s Mare Clausum/The Closed Sea (1635). The work’s writing and printing history is closely tied to Stuart foreign policy, particularly James I’s and Charles I’s attempts to tax the Dutch herring fisheries. Mare Clausum’s immediate impact on European international relations has received little attention from historians so far. It is clear, howeve…
Danny Noorlander, Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World
The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
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Marco Barducci. Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613–1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought
Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613–1718, is a book on an important topic. The Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) is best known today as “father of international law.” Yet in his own time he was considered a prince of scholars whose interests ran the gamut from politics, history, and law to poetry and theology. Nowhere else was the reception of his large body of manuscripts and printed publications as comprehensive or as deep as i…
Hugo Grotius: The Making of a Founding Father of International Law
This chapter explains how the myths surrounding Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) came into being and whose interests have been served by it. It was a combination of Dutch nationalism and the rise of modern international law that turned Grotius into a ‘founding father’, with a little help, it should be said, from the American delegates at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. The myth is based on a highly selective reading of De Jure Belli ac Pacis and complet…
Writing Global History and Its Challenges—A Workshop with Jürgen Osterhammel and Geoffrey Parker
On 4 June 2016, Jürgen Osterhammel of the University of Konstanz and Geoffrey Parker of Ohio State University gave an all-day workshop on global history for graduate students and junior and senior scholars of the Universities of Dundee and St. Andrews in Scotland. The workshop consisted of three discussion sessions, each with a different theme, namely the conceptualization(s), parameters, and possible future(s) of global history. The central ques…
Debating Natural Law in the Banda Islands: A Case Study in Anglo–Dutch Imperial Competition in the East Indies, 1609–1621
This article examines Anglo–Dutch rivalry in the Banda Islands in the period from 1609 to 1621, with a particular focus on the process of claiming initiated by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and English East India Company (EIC). Historians have paid little attention to the precise legal justifications employed by these organisations, and how they affected the outcome of events. For both companies, treaties with Asian rulers and peoples were e…
Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade: Dutch-Indigenous Alliances in the Atlantic World, 1595–1674
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Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage
The interview took place on a splendid summer day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The location was slightly exotic: the interviewers had lunch with David Armitage at Upstairs at the Square, an eatery which sports pink and mint green walls, zebra decorations, and even a stuffed crocodile. What more could one
Confronting Grotius’ Legacy in an Age of Revolution: The Cornets de Groot Family in Rotterdam, 1748–98
In May 1777, a solemn ceremony took place in the vault of the Cornets de Groot family in the New Church in Delft. A coffin containing the body of Hugo Cornets de Groot (1709–77), a great-great-grandson of the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), was lowered into the vault in the presence of his two sons and three daughters. The Rotterdam burgomaster had taken great pride in his lineage. His children were not lacking in ancestral piety either. I…
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595—1600
(Un)Masking the Realities of Power: Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe
Erik De Bom, Marijke Janssens, and Toon Van Houdt, eds. (Un)Masking the Realities of Power: Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 193. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xi + 348 pp. index. bibl. $141. ISBN: 978–90–04–19128–0. - Volume 64 Issue 4
Knowledge Production in the Dutch Republic: The Household Academy of Hugo Grotius
The household academy was an important center of knowledge production in the Dutch Republic. This article analyzes the workings of one of the premier political and learned families of Holland, centered on the jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). His immediate relatives were actively involved in the process of writing and publication. They sought to steer him clear of certain political and scholarly debates, while helping him to engage in others. They…
The wise man is never merely a private citizen: The Roman Stoa in Hugo Grotius’ De Jure Praedae (1604–1608)
The possible Stoic origins of the natural rights and natural law theories of the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) has been a subject a scholarly debate in recent years yet discussions about Grotian sociability tend to focus exclusively on the meaning of appetitus societaus in De Jure Praedae (written in 1604-1608) and De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625), with little reference to the historical context Insufficient consideration has beengiven to th…
The long goodbye: Hugo Grotius’ justification of Dutch expansion overseas, 1615–1645
This article examines Grotius' lifelong support for Dutch expansion overseas. As noted in other publications of mine, Grotius cooperated closely with the directors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the years 1604-1615. Right up to his arrest for high treason in August 1618, he contributed towards Dutch government discussions about the establishment of a West India Company (WIC). Three years of imprisonment at Loevestein Castle and, followi…
Dating the manuscript of De Jure Praedae (1604–1608): What watermarks, foliation and quire divisions can tell us about Hugo Grotius’ development as a natural rights and natural law theorist
Following the manuscript's discovery in 1864, scholars have widely assumed that De Jure Praedae (Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty) was written by the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in the period 1604-1606. Yet the conventional dating fails to consider the materiality of Ms. BPL 917 in Leiden University Library. By analyzing paper supplies, this article throws new light on the date and manner of the manuscript's composition. The wat…
Political ought in the Dutch Republic in an Age of Decline
Mare Liberum in the West Indies: Hugo Grotius and the Case of the Swimming Lion , a Dutch Pirate in the Caribbean at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
This article reconstructs the voyage of the Swimming Lion to the Caribbean in 1595 and the court battle to which it gave rise. The Master mariner Gillis Dorenhoven was accused of piracy by Pedro d'Arana, contador of Havana, who sued his employers before the Middelburg Admiralty Court in 1609–1610. Johan Boreel, the eldest son of one of the defendants, sought expert advice from his friend Hugo Grotius. The author of Mare Liberum , published in Apr…
The Mouse That Roars: Dutch Atlantic History
Hugo Grotius in Context: Van Heemskerck's Capture of the Santa Catarina and its Justification in De Jure Praedae (1604-1606)
This article reconstructs Jacob van Heemskerck's second voyage to the East Indies and his capture of the Portuguese merchantman Santa Catarina on 25 February 1603. It incorporates important new archival evidence like Van Heemskerck's letter to the directors of the Dutch East India Company of 27 August 1603, and the original text of the verdict of the Amsterdam Admiralty Court, which confiscated the Santa Catarina on 4 September 1604. It has long …
Debating Natural Law in the Banda Islands: A Case Study in Anglo–Dutch Imperial Competition in the East Indies, 1609–1621
This article examines Anglo–Dutch rivalry in the Banda Islands in the period from 1609 to 1621, with a particular focus on the process of claiming initiated by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and English East India Company (EIC). Historians have paid little attention to the precise legal justifications employed by these organisations, and how they affected the outcome of events. For both companies, treaties with Asian rulers and peoples were e…
The long goodbye: Hugo Grotius’ justification of Dutch expansion overseas, 1615–1645
This article examines Grotius' lifelong support for Dutch expansion overseas. As noted in other publications of mine, Grotius cooperated closely with the directors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the years 1604-1615. Right up to his arrest for high treason in August 1618, he contributed towards Dutch government discussions about the establishment of a West India Company (WIC). Three years of imprisonment at Loevestein Castle and, followi…
Hugo Grotius in Context: Van Heemskerck's Capture of the Santa Catarina and its Justification in De Jure Praedae (1604-1606)
This article reconstructs Jacob van Heemskerck's second voyage to the East Indies and his capture of the Portuguese merchantman Santa Catarina on 25 February 1603. It incorporates important new archival evidence like Van Heemskerck's letter to the directors of the Dutch East India Company of 27 August 1603, and the original text of the verdict of the Amsterdam Admiralty Court, which confiscated the Santa Catarina on 4 September 1604. It has long …
Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage
The interview took place on a splendid summer day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The location was slightly exotic: the interviewers had lunch with David Armitage at Upstairs at the Square, an eatery which sports pink and mint green walls, zebra decorations, and even a stuffed crocodile. What more could one
Knowledge Production in the Dutch Republic: The Household Academy of Hugo Grotius
The household academy was an important center of knowledge production in the Dutch Republic. This article analyzes the workings of one of the premier political and learned families of Holland, centered on the jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). His immediate relatives were actively involved in the process of writing and publication. They sought to steer him clear of certain political and scholarly debates, while helping him to engage in others. They…
Hugo Grotius in Context: Van Heemskerck's Capture of the Santa Catarina and its Justification in De Jure Praedae (1604-1606)
This article reconstructs Jacob van Heemskerck's second voyage to the East Indies and his capture of the Portuguese merchantman Santa Catarina on 25 February 1603. It incorporates important new archival evidence like Van Heemskerck's letter to the directors of the Dutch East India Company of 27 August 1603, and the original text of the verdict of the Amsterdam Admiralty Court, which confiscated the Santa Catarina on 4 September 1604. It has long …
The Mouse That Roars: Dutch Atlantic History
Mare Liberum in the West Indies: Hugo Grotius and the Case of the Swimming Lion , a Dutch Pirate in the Caribbean at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
This article reconstructs the voyage of the Swimming Lion to the Caribbean in 1595 and the court battle to which it gave rise. The Master mariner Gillis Dorenhoven was accused of piracy by Pedro d'Arana, contador of Havana, who sued his employers before the Middelburg Admiralty Court in 1609–1610. Johan Boreel, the eldest son of one of the defendants, sought expert advice from his friend Hugo Grotius. The author of Mare Liberum , published in Apr…
Political ought in the Dutch Republic in an Age of Decline
Dating the manuscript of De Jure Praedae (1604–1608): What watermarks, foliation and quire divisions can tell us about Hugo Grotius’ development as a natural rights and natural law theorist
Following the manuscript's discovery in 1864, scholars have widely assumed that De Jure Praedae (Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty) was written by the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in the period 1604-1606. Yet the conventional dating fails to consider the materiality of Ms. BPL 917 in Leiden University Library. By analyzing paper supplies, this article throws new light on the date and manner of the manuscript's composition. The wat…
The wise man is never merely a private citizen: The Roman Stoa in Hugo Grotius’ De Jure Praedae (1604–1608)
The possible Stoic origins of the natural rights and natural law theories of the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) has been a subject a scholarly debate in recent years yet discussions about Grotian sociability tend to focus exclusively on the meaning of appetitus societaus in De Jure Praedae (written in 1604-1608) and De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625), with little reference to the historical context Insufficient consideration has beengiven to th…
The long goodbye: Hugo Grotius’ justification of Dutch expansion overseas, 1615–1645
This article examines Grotius' lifelong support for Dutch expansion overseas. As noted in other publications of mine, Grotius cooperated closely with the directors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the years 1604-1615. Right up to his arrest for high treason in August 1618, he contributed towards Dutch government discussions about the establishment of a West India Company (WIC). Three years of imprisonment at Loevestein Castle and, followi…
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595—1600
(Un)Masking the Realities of Power: Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe
Erik De Bom, Marijke Janssens, and Toon Van Houdt, eds. (Un)Masking the Realities of Power: Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 193. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xi + 348 pp. index. bibl. $141. ISBN: 978–90–04–19128–0. - Volume 64 Issue 4
Knowledge Production in the Dutch Republic: The Household Academy of Hugo Grotius
The household academy was an important center of knowledge production in the Dutch Republic. This article analyzes the workings of one of the premier political and learned families of Holland, centered on the jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). His immediate relatives were actively involved in the process of writing and publication. They sought to steer him clear of certain political and scholarly debates, while helping him to engage in others. They…
Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage
The interview took place on a splendid summer day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The location was slightly exotic: the interviewers had lunch with David Armitage at Upstairs at the Square, an eatery which sports pink and mint green walls, zebra decorations, and even a stuffed crocodile. What more could one
Confronting Grotius’ Legacy in an Age of Revolution: The Cornets de Groot Family in Rotterdam, 1748–98
In May 1777, a solemn ceremony took place in the vault of the Cornets de Groot family in the New Church in Delft. A coffin containing the body of Hugo Cornets de Groot (1709–77), a great-great-grandson of the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), was lowered into the vault in the presence of his two sons and three daughters. The Rotterdam burgomaster had taken great pride in his lineage. His children were not lacking in ancestral piety either. I…
Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade: Dutch-Indigenous Alliances in the Atlantic World, 1595–1674
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hugo Grotius: The Making of a Founding Father of International Law
This chapter explains how the myths surrounding Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) came into being and whose interests have been served by it. It was a combination of Dutch nationalism and the rise of modern international law that turned Grotius into a ‘founding father’, with a little help, it should be said, from the American delegates at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. The myth is based on a highly selective reading of De Jure Belli ac Pacis and complet…
Writing Global History and Its Challenges—A Workshop with Jürgen Osterhammel and Geoffrey Parker
On 4 June 2016, Jürgen Osterhammel of the University of Konstanz and Geoffrey Parker of Ohio State University gave an all-day workshop on global history for graduate students and junior and senior scholars of the Universities of Dundee and St. Andrews in Scotland. The workshop consisted of three discussion sessions, each with a different theme, namely the conceptualization(s), parameters, and possible future(s) of global history. The central ques…
Debating Natural Law in the Banda Islands: A Case Study in Anglo–Dutch Imperial Competition in the East Indies, 1609–1621
This article examines Anglo–Dutch rivalry in the Banda Islands in the period from 1609 to 1621, with a particular focus on the process of claiming initiated by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and English East India Company (EIC). Historians have paid little attention to the precise legal justifications employed by these organisations, and how they affected the outcome of events. For both companies, treaties with Asian rulers and peoples were e…
The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Marco Barducci. Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613–1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought
Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613–1718, is a book on an important topic. The Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) is best known today as “father of international law.” Yet in his own time he was considered a prince of scholars whose interests ran the gamut from politics, history, and law to poetry and theology. Nowhere else was the reception of his large body of manuscripts and printed publications as comprehensive or as deep as i…
Danny Noorlander, Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World
Christopher Joby, The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and C…
The Dutch Language in Japan is Joby's most ambitious project so far. The question he seeks to answer is 'what happened when Dutch came into contact with other languages in Tokugawa Japan?' (4). His approach is primarily a linguistic one. The monograph analyses 'the extent to which the contact between Dutch and other languages in Japan, above all varieties of Japanese, led to interference in these languages on a lexical, syntactic and graphic leve…
Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664
Gateways to Empire is a comparative study of French and Dutch imperial expansion into North America in the early modern period. Based on Weeks’ doctoral dissertation, its main focus is the development of Quebec and New Amsterdam from fur trading towns into ‘gateways’ of European settlement colonies. This monograph consists of an introduction, nine chapters, a conclusion, a bibliography, and an index. In the introduction, the author sets the follo…
Debating the Free Sea in London, Paris, The Hague and Venice: The publication of John Selden’s Mare Clausum (1635) and its diplomatic repercussions in Western Europe
Politics, religion and legal argumentation were inextricably intertwined in the reception of John Selden’s Mare Clausum/The Closed Sea (1635). The work’s writing and printing history is closely tied to Stuart foreign policy, particularly James I’s and Charles I’s attempts to tax the Dutch herring fisheries. Mare Clausum’s immediate impact on European international relations has received little attention from historians so far. It is clear, howeve…
Guillaume Calafat, Une mer jalousée: Contribution à l’histoire de la souveraineté (Méditerranée, XVIIe siècle)
Martti Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870
Agents of European overseas empires: Private colonisers, 1450–1800, edited by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L.H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Agnès Delahaye
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