Editors
D. Schwartz (Ed.)
Document Type
Occasional Paper
Publication Date
10-2016
Publication Title
Center for Gaming Research Occasional Paper Series: Paper 36
Publisher Location
Las Vegas, Nevada
First page number:
1
Last page number:
9
Abstract
In seeking to illuminate the ways in which inchoate models of addiction emerged alongside the unprecedented popularity of gambling in Stuart London, this paper will explore the intersections between a rudimentary pathology of addiction and transformations in the epistemology of reason, the passions, and humoral psychology in the seventeenth century. By exploring the connections between endogenous and exogenous categories of mental illness, this study will examine the ways in which medicine, social expectations, and religion intersected in the seventeenth century alongside the historical relationship between evolving concepts of mental illness, stigma and the politics of blame and responsibility in the early modern period.
Keywords
gamester; witchcraft; masculinity; gaming; mathematics
Disciplines
European History | Gaming and Casino Operations Management | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Psychology
File Format
Language
English
Repository Citation
Chamberland, C.
(2016).
An Enchanting Witchcraft: Masculinity, Melancholy, and the Pathology of Gaming in Early Modern London. In D. Schwartz (Ed.),
Center for Gaming Research Occasional Paper Series: Paper 36
1-9.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/occ_papers/37
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