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The Banishment of Beverland - Sex, Sin, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic (Hardcover)
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The Banishment of Beverland - Sex, Sin, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic (Hardcover)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 298
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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.
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