Researchers
Jan Waszink
Date and institution PhD awarded:
February 22 2002, University of Amsterdam
Specialisation:
Early-modern intellectual history; Humanism; history of political thought; Neo-Latin; Reception of classical literature; history of secularisation and toleration
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- Veni-grant from Dutch NWO for the project Hugo Grotius' Annales et Historiae.
- [leader] "Sekularyzacja Zachodu: Tacytyzm od XVI do XVIII wieku" [“Secularization of the West: Tacitism from the 16th to the 18th century”], NCN Opus 18, no. 2019/35/B/HS1/04039, 2020–.
- Lipsius, Politica. Six books of Politics or Political Instruction, ed. with translation and introduction by Jan Waszink, Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae, Assen (Van Gorcum), 2004.
- Hugo Grotius, The Antiquity of the Batavian Republic, with the notes by Petrus Scriverius, ed. and translated by Jan Waszink et al., Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae, Assen (Van Gorcum), 2000.
- Hugo Grotius, De Iure Praedae Commentarius, Brill Academic Publishers, 2017.
- 'Grotius as Historian', in: Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius [in print 2021].
- 'The Praelium Nuportanum by Isaac Dorislaus: Anglo-Dutch relations and strategic historiography', History of European Ideas, 42 (2016), issue 8, pp. 1005–1026.
- 'Henry Savile's Tacitus and the English role on the Continent: Leicester, Hotman, Lipsius', History of European Ideas, 42 (2016), issue 3, pp. 303–319.
- 'Lipsius and Grotius: Tacitism', History of European Ideas, 39 (2013), issue 2, pp. 151–168.
- 'A nouveau agenda de recherche: Origins of Secularisation, Tacitism', in: Les Pays-Bas aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Nouveaux regards, eds. C. Secretan, D. Antoine-Mahut, Paris, 2015.
- 'Your Tacitism or mine? Modern and early-modern conceptions of Tacitus and Tacitism', History of European Ideas, 36 (2010), pp. 375–385
- 'New documents on the prohibition of Grotius' Annales et Historiae by the Roman Index', Grotiana S., vol. 24–25 (2003–2004), pp. 77–138.
- 'Tacitism in Holland: Hugo Grotius' Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis, in: Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Bonn 2003), ed. Rhoda Schnur, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 315 (2006).
