The Banished Scholar: Beverland, Sex, and Liberty in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries

Scholar Hadriaan Beverland was banished from Holland in 1679. Why was this humanist exiled from one of the most tolerant parts of Europe in the seventeenth century? This article argues that it was Beverland’s singular focus on sexual lust that got him into such great trouble. In his studies, he high...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karen Hollewand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2017-12-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/7154