RT Book
T1 The banishment of Beverland: sex, sin, and scholarship in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic
T2 Brill's studies in intellectual history
JF Brill's studies in intellectual history
A1 Hollewand, Karen Eline 1986-
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663845840
AB Prologue: banishment (1650-1680) -- Sin -- Scripture -- Scholarship -- Sex -- Epilogue: exile (1680-1716)
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN P85.B48
SN 978-90-04-34496-9
K1 Beverland, Hadriaan : 1650-1716
K1 Philologists : Netherlands : Biography
K1 Classicists : Netherlands : Biography
K1 Humanism : Netherlands : History : 17th century
K1 Sex : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Sin, Original : History of doctrines
K1 Netherlands : Intellectual life : 17th century
K1 Netherlands : Church history : 17th century
K1 Hochschulschrift