Hadriaan Beverland's De Peccato Originali (On Original Sin 1679)

Karen Hollewand is at the University of Groningen (Department of History), where she studies the history of sexuality. Her publications include The Banishment of Beverland. Sex, Sin, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic (Leiden, 2019).Floris Verhaart is a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies). His publications include Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns (Oxford, 2020).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsEditorial NoteIntroduction1 Life and Works2 Intellectual Context and Influences3 Reception4 Style5 Textual TraditionSummary of the Contents of the DPO per ChapterDe peccato originali (Transcription and Translation)BibliographyIndex

“Capitalising on resurging scholarly interest in Beverland’s story and beliefs, Karen Hollewand and Floris Verhaart have prepared this first translation to make his ideas more understandable and his work more accessible to a wider audience. Beverland is especially significant because he was the first early Enlightenment writer to concentrate on the topic of sex ... an impressive translation of an important work, including a powerful technical apparatus, which promises great insight for those interested in early modern attitudes towards sex and biblical scholarship in the Dutch Republic.”Matthew Baines (Moore Theological College) in Intellectual History Review on May 8th, 2024https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2024.2347074