{"id":11210,"date":"2018-04-13T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11210"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:03:20","slug":"i-review-addiction-devotion-in-early-modern-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2018\/04\/i-review-addiction-devotion-in-early-modern-england.html","title":{"rendered":"I review “Addiction & Devotion in Early Modern England”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

a book crafted, it would seem, utterly and precisely pour moi<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The first addicts to stumble across the threshold of the English language, refugees from Latin, were not only drunks or gamblers. Their ranks included devout Christians and scholars. Today we argue about whether addiction is a sin or a sickness, but when the term first entered our language it could name a virtue and an accomplishment: In the 16th<\/sup> century \u201caddiction\u201d covered many forms of \u201cservice, debt, and dedication,\u201d including the pious Christian\u2019s zeal to obey God\u2019s every command. Rebecca Lemon\u2019s new study, Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England<\/i>, does not merely trace an etymological development. She takes the earliest meanings of \u201caddiction\u201d not as a cute quirk of linguistic history, but as a challenge to our contemporary shared understandings of substance abuse, political sovereignty, religious faith, and love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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a book crafted, it would seem, utterly and precisely pour moi: The first addicts to stumble across the threshold of the English language, refugees from Latin, were not only drunks or gamblers. Their ranks included devout Christians and scholars. 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