1st Edition
Dangerous Drugs The Self-Presentation of the Merchant-Poet Joannes Six van Chandelier (1620-1695)
By Ronny Spaans
Copyright 2020
456 Pages
by
Routledge
456 Pages
by
Routledge
456 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of the world trade in exotic drugs and spices. They were sought after both as medicines, and as luxury objects for the bourgeois class, giving rise to a medical and moral anxiety in the Republic. This ambivalent view on exotic drugs is the theme of the poetry of Joannes Six van Chandelier (1620-1695). Six, who himself ran the drug shop 'The... Read more
Acknowledgements, Part I: Introduction, Part II: Medicinal and sacred drugs, Part III: Divine Blood for Sale, Appendix I, Appendix II, Bibliography, Index
Biography
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.
