Hugo Grotius, Annals of the War in the Low Countries

Jan Waszink is senior researcher at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

It is owing to Jan Waszink’s invaluable and indefatigable scholarship on the Annales that the obstacles to its study are now finally removed. There are no more excuses not to read Grotius the historian. - Helmer Helmers, The Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2283342

• Preface vii Introduction 1. Hugo Grotius’ Annales et Historiae 2. The AH and the States of Holland, the Revolt and the Truce Conflicts 2.1. The main setting 2.2. The publication plans for the AH in 1612–13 2.3. The States and History 2.4. The Truce Conflicts 3. Hugo Grotius 1 4. Tacitism and Reason of State in the Annales et Historiae 5. The Statesman-Historian: Grotius and the historian’s role in society 6. Controversial content and the non-publication of the AH in 1612–1613 7. Tacitism 7.1. Tacitist content and ideas 7.2. Syntax and forms of Grotius’ imitation of Tacitus’ literary style 7.3. Compositorial aspects and narrative structure 7.3.1. Is there dramatic structuring in the AH? 7.4. Conclusion: Grotius’ imitation of Tacitus 8. Some important characters in the AH 8.1. William the Silent 8.2. Philip II 8.3. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 9. Other aspects 9.1. Grotius and the Twelve Years’ Truce 9.2. The AH’s relationship with Grotius’ other works 9.3. Grotius as Historian 9.4. Is there a sense of ‘Netherlands’ or ‘Dutch’ nationhood in the Annales? 10. Sources of the Annales et Historiae 11. The composition and reception of the Annales et Historiae 11.1. Original composition and manuscripts 11.2. Reception during Grotius’ lifetime 11.3. The survival of the manuscripts 11.4. The printed editions of 1657–1658 11.5. The AH and the Vatican Index of Forbidden Books 1657–1659 11.6. Translations 11.7. Further reception, 17th–21st centuries 11.8. Scholarship on the text 12. Conclusion This edition 1. Principles of this edition 1.1. Sigla 1.2. Neo-Latin aspects 2. About this translation Summaries of annales 1–5 Appendix 1. The extant manuscripts of the Historiae Appendix 2. The Vatican Index reports Appendix 3. Biographical epilogues on Philip II by Grotius and by Van Meteren Appendix 4. The Nijmegen copy of Pompeio Giustiniani’s Bellum Belgicum Appendix 5. Pieter Feddes van Harlingen’s ‘Monster’ print of 1619 Appendix 6. Sententiae and epigrams in Annales 1 and 2 Appendix 7. Book summaries by the editors of 1657 Bibliography Illustration credits Index to the introduction Index of names to the translation and notes