A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-century England

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Adam Smyth
DS Brewer, 2004 - 214 Seiten
By discussing diverse social contexts - from the Inns of Court to rural Derbyshire - contributors ask what kinds of etiquettes and rituals governed different drinking communities in the seventeenth century. What was the significance of particular drink for particular social contexts? How exclusive were drinking communities? And what happened when outsiders breached these coteries? The role of gender in drinking and sociability in considered, including the ambiguous figure of the female drinker: was alcohol a source of female empowerment or a mechanism to enforce a patriarchal culture? The influence of particular kinds of drink - claret, port, beer, ale, cider, perry - and particular kinds of drinkers in generating discourses of politics, nationalism, and xenophobia is considered; and the received views of moderation and excess are analysed: while early modern medicinal tracts championed measured drinking of wine and beer as a cure for sickness, drunkenness was consistently and dramatically aligned with physical decay, madness and sedition. The range of texts discussed is broad: popular broadside ballads and husbandry manuals; dramatic works; verse collections; manuscript miscellanies; scientific and medical tracts; and political treaties.
Contributors: STELLA ACHILLEOS, KAREN BRITLAND, CEDRIC C. BROWN, TANYA CASSIDY, LOUISE HILL CURTH, ANGELA MCSHANE JONES, MARIKA KEBLUSEK, CHARLES C. LUDINGTON, CHARLOTTE MCBRIDE, MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN, SUSAN J. OWEN, VITTORIA DI PALMA, ADAM SMYTH.
 

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Sons of Beer and Sons of Ben Drink as a Social Marker in SeventeenthCentury England
3
The Anacreontea and a Tradition of Refined Male Sociability
21
Tavern Societies the Inns of Court and the Culture of Conviviality in Early SeventeenthCentury London
37
Wine for Comfort Drinking and the Royalist Exile Experience 16421660
55
Roaring Royalists and Ranting Brewers The Politicisation of Drink and Drunkenness in Political Broadside Ballads from 1640 to 1689
69
Be sometimes to your country true The Politics of Wine in England 16601714
89
Circes Cup Wine and Women in Early Modern Drama
109
Drink Sex and Power in Restoration Comedy
127
Health Strength and Happiness Medical Constructions of Wine and Beer in Early Modern England
143
Drinking Cider in Paradise Science Improvement and the Politics of Fruit Trees
161
A Natural Drink for an English Man National Stereotyping in Early Modern Culture
181
It were far better be a Toad or a Serpant then a Drunkard Writing About Drunkenness
193
Index
211
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