Hadriaan Beverland's de Peccato Originali (on Original Sin 1679)

An Annotated Edition and Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-34285-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 349/29, 12 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 772 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

In his De peccato originali (1679), Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) presented his thesis that sex was the original sin and a vital part of human nature. Building on contemporary insights into the history of the text of the Bible, he criticised the hypocritical attitudes among the religious and social elite of his day concerning the biblical text and sexual morality. The work became notorious in the seventeenth century and led to its author’s banishment. In the eighteenth century, it exerted considerable influence on the way in which many in Europe came to see sexuality.

This annotated edition with English translation also includes a comprehensive introduction that includes a contextualization of the De peccato originali and its impact.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hollewand, Karen Eline

Verhaart, Floris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Editorial Note

Introduction

1 Life and Works

2 Intellectual Context and Influences

3 Reception

4 Style

5 Textual Tradition

Summary of the Contents of the DPO per Chapter

De peccato originali (Transcription and Translation)

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).