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Dangerous Drugs : The Self-Presentation of the Merchant-Poet Joannes Six van Chandelier (1620-1695) /
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 the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Theory and reception
- Part II. Medicinal and Sacred Drugs
- 2. The sober druggist
- 3. Drugs in the Wunderkammer
- 4. Drugs as remedies
- 5. Drugs as material and linguistic cosmetics
- 6. Drugs as explosives
- 7. Drugs as Sacred Offerings
- 8. Drugs as intoxicants
- Part III. Divine Blood for Sale
- 9. The human body as a drug
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendix I: 'Rariteiten te koop'
- Appendix II: Family and business network of Joannes Six van Chandelier
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of poems