Protestant Evangelicals and Addiction in Early Modern English (article)
When the English word ‘addict' emerged in the sixteenth century, it did not mean the same as addiction today. This article uses the language of early modern addiction to not...
David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He published Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800 in 2015. To read Giovanni Pozzetti’s review of this book go to http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2017.1375699