Dangerous Drugs The Self Presentation of Merchant Poet Joannes Six Van Chandelier

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ronny Spaans
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.12.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9781041177906
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4117790-6
• Pages: 456
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
• Subjects: European History, Poetry, HISTORY / Europe / General, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Golden Age, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Calvinism, drugs;exotics;poetry;golden age;calvinism, exotics, early modern drug culture analysis, seventeenth-century Amsterdam society