A reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; engaging with reception studies as a whole, and exploring how seventeenth-century English debate contributed to wider European thought. a valuable addition to the evergrowing literature on this important thinker... Barducci discusses his subject with great scholarship and erudition, and he is to be commended for his innovative transnational approach that requires a high level of linguistic skill as well as the command of multiple historiographies.