Banishment of Beverland

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.

• 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