Acknowledgements

The organization of the conference that started the genesis of this book has profited enormously from the generous financial support of the Central European University and Brill Publishers Leiden.

All but one of the chapters originated out of papers delivered at a confer­ence at the Central European University (ceu) 10-12 November 2016, organ­ized by the ceu together with Palacky University Olomouc and Grotiana Foundation, on the topic of the law of nature and of nations in early-mod­ern sacred polity. Markus Totzeck joined the project later, while the papers by Jana Engelbrechtova and Laetitia Ramelet appeared in Grotiana 40 (2019). With her crucial contribution, Dominique Bauer joined Stefanie Ertz and Adriana Luna-Fabritius in pinpointing in this volume crucial episodes in the development of natural law in sacred polities. Previous commitments of William Bain, Johan Olsthoorn and Tobias Schaffner prevented their contri­bution to the conference from appearing in this volume. See chapter 6 (�Hugo Grotius and the God of International Society') in William Bain, The Political Theology of International Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019); Johan Olsthoorn, �Grotius on Natural Law and Supererogation', Journal of the History of Philosophy 57/3 (2019), 443-469; Tobias Schaffner, �The Eudaemonist Ethics of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645): Pre-Modern Moral Philosophy for the Twenty- First Century?' Jurisprudence 7 (2016), pp. 478-522. I thank my co-organisers Jana Engelbrechtova and Laszlo Kontler for their hard work in making the con­ference a success.