Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England Shana Lee Hirsch and racial discrimination all have

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1494-1536) gave the English people their first printed New Testament which he translated from the orginal Greek

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Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England Shana Lee Hirsch and racial discrimination all haveRebecca Lemon illuminates a previously buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that