Banishment of Beverland

Sex, Sin, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

AvKaren Eline Hollewand

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In 1679 Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) was banished from the province of Holland. Why was this humanist scholar exiled from one of the most tolerant parts of Europe in the seventeenth century? To answer this question, this book places Beverland’s writings on sex, sin, and scholarship in their historical context for the first time. Beverland argued that sexual lust was the original sin and highlighted the importance of sex in human nature, ancient history, and his own society. His audacious works hit a raw nerve: Dutch theologians accused him of atheism, he was abandoned by his humanist colleagues, and he was banished by the University of Leiden.By positioning Beverland’s extraordinary scholarship in the context of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, this book examines how his radical studies challenged the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political elite, providing a fresh perspective upon the Dutch Republic in the last decades of its Golden Age.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-28
Mått:155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:648 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004344969

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Karen Hollewand is a Postdoc at the University of Utrecht, where she currently studies the ideal of sharing knowledge in the early modern Republic of Letters and the development of a science of sex in seventeenth-century Europe. She completed her DPhil on the banishment of Beverland at the University of Oxford in 2016.

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AcknowledgmentsList of Tables and IllustrationsAbbreviations and TranslationsNote on TranslationsIntroduction1 Studies on Beverland2 The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic3 Sin, Scripture, Scholarship, SexPrologue: Banishment (1650–1680)1 Early Life and Student Years2 First Publications2 Trial and Banishment1 Sin1 The Fall of Adam and Eve2 Ideas on Sex and Sin3 Beverland and the Dutch Theologians4 Conclusion2 Scripture1 The Bible in the Seventeenth Century2 Philological Criticism3 Composition and Conservation4 A Spinozist?5 Conclusion3 Scholarship1 The Humanist2 Sex and Humanist Scholarship3 Conclusion4 Sex1 Bars, Brothels, and Obscenities2 Enticing Texts and Images3 Truth and Liberty4 ConclusionEpilogue: Exile (1680–1716)1 Studies and Services2 Return to the Dutch Republic3 A Broken ManConclusionBibliographyIndex