The study shows how Six, through a process of self-presentation as a sober and restrained merchant, but also as a penitent sinner, thirsting for God's grace, links early modern drug abuse to different desires, such as lust, avarice, pride and curiosity.
The study shows how Six, through a process of self-presentation as a sober and restrained merchant, but also as a penitent sinner, thirsting for God's grace, links early modern drug abuse to different desires, such as lust, avarice, pride and curiosity.
Ronny Spaans is Professor of Nordic Literature at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research focuses on literary history, literary historiography, and early modern literature, as well as poetry, new Norse literary history, and Norwegian-Dutch relations.
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Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction Part II: Medicinal and sacred drugs Part III: Divine Blood for Sale Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index
