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Author Hollewand, Karen Eline, 1986- author.

Title The banishment of Beverland : sex, sin, and scholarship in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / by Karen E. Hollewand.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 310 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 298
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 298.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: banishment (1650-1680) -- Sin -- Scripture -- Scholarship -- Sex -- Epilogue: exile (1680-1716).
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Subject Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716.
Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716.
Philologists -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Philologists.
Netherlands.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Classicists -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Classicists.
Humanism -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century.
Humanism.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Sin, Original -- History of doctrines.
Sin, Original -- History of doctrines.
Netherlands -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Intellectual life.
Netherlands -- Church history -- 17th century.
Church history.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Hollewand, Karen Eline, 1986- Banishment of Beverland. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004344969 (DLC) 2019001768
ISBN 9004396322 (electronic book)
9789004396326 (electronic book)
9789004344969 (hardcover alkaline paper)