Author: Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004679901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
Hadriaan Beverland's De Peccato Originali (On Original Sin1679)
Author: Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004679901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004679901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
The Banishment of Beverland
Author: Karen Eline Hollewand
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004396322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Why was scholar Hadriaan Beverland banished from Holland in 1679? This book answers this question by positioning Beverland’s sexual studies in their historical context for the first time, examining how his radical works challenged the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political elite of Dutch Republic.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004396322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Why was scholar Hadriaan Beverland banished from Holland in 1679? This book answers this question by positioning Beverland’s sexual studies in their historical context for the first time, examining how his radical works challenged the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political elite of Dutch Republic.
The Philosophers and the Bible
Author: Antonella Del Prete
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004471952
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An innovative perspective on the relationship between philosophy and the Bible. The early modern philosophers’ interpretations of the Scriptures allow deciphering the breeding ground of the freedom of philosophizing, the theological-political debate, and the new conception of nature.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004471952
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An innovative perspective on the relationship between philosophy and the Bible. The early modern philosophers’ interpretations of the Scriptures allow deciphering the breeding ground of the freedom of philosophizing, the theological-political debate, and the new conception of nature.
Nicholas of Cusa on the Trinitarian Structure of the Innate Criterion of Truth
Author: Paula Pico Estrada
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004499563
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
An analysis of Nicholas of Cusa’s conception of the power of judgment that shows it enables morality as well as cognition.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004499563
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
An analysis of Nicholas of Cusa’s conception of the power of judgment that shows it enables morality as well as cognition.
A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics
Author: Harald Ernst Braun
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004296964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. Each chapter is grounded in primary sources and the relevant historiography, includes a useful bibliography, and serves as a point of departure for future research.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004296964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. Each chapter is grounded in primary sources and the relevant historiography, includes a useful bibliography, and serves as a point of departure for future research.
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: New Readings
Author: Diogo Pires Aurélio
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.
Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols.)
Author: Lionel Laborie
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443630
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
Laborie and Hessayon bring rare prophetic and millenarian texts to an international audience by presenting sources from all over Europe (broadly defined), and across the early modern period in English for the first time.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443630
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
Laborie and Hessayon bring rare prophetic and millenarian texts to an international audience by presenting sources from all over Europe (broadly defined), and across the early modern period in English for the first time.
The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment
Author: Riccarda Suitner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004465030
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004465030
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment.
Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100
Author: László Sándor Chardonnens
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
This book offers an analysis of the status and function of the Anglo-Saxon prognostics in their manuscript context, a study of their introduction to and transmission in Anglo-Saxon England, and, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
This book offers an analysis of the status and function of the Anglo-Saxon prognostics in their manuscript context, a study of their introduction to and transmission in Anglo-Saxon England, and, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin.
Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism
Author: Thomas Hendrickson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004338179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The De Bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first monograph on library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004338179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The De Bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first monograph on library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.