by Spanish scholastics such as Francisco de Vitoria and Francisco Suárez. Grotius composed much of the text while imprisoned in the Netherlands and completed it in 1623 at Senlis, with the assistance of Dirck Graswinckel.

Historical context and purpose

Grotius wrote De jure belli ac pacis against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648),

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