Hugo Grotius Escapes Loevestein
About this episode
Loevestein's soldiers grew lax about checking Hugo Grotius's chest of books. In 1621, Hugo Grotius, prisoner and legal scholar, longed to escape his life sentence in Loevestein Castle.
Research sources for this film
- Grotius, Hugo | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Grotius, Rights of War and Peace 1625
- About Hugo Grotius - Hugo Grotius Collection - LibGuides at University of Georgia School of Law
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- Elselina van Houwening
- chapter 17 Confiscated Manuscripts and Books: What
- Paris: the Exile · Grotius · Omeka - UBL
- Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica: Unravelling a 17th-century prison escape: The quest to identify the original Hugo Grotius bookchest
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