Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England

Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England
Title Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Mark Hailwood
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 268
Release 2014
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1843839423

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This book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site for public recreation in the villages and market towns of England. In the face of considerable animosity from Church and State, the patrons of alehouses, who were drawn from a wide cross section of village society, fought for and won a central place in their communities for an institution that they cherished as a vital facilitator of what they termed "good fellowship". For them, sharing a drink in the alehouse was fundamental to the formation of social bonds, to the expression of their identity, and to the definition of communities, allegiances and friendships. Bringing together social and cultural history approaches, this book draws on a wide range of source material - from legal records and diary evidence to printed drinking songs - to investigate battles over alehouse licensing and the regulation of drinking; the political views and allegiances that ordinary men and women expressed from the alebench; the meanings and values that drinking rituals and practices held for contemporaries; and the social networks and collective identities expressed through the choice of drinking companions. Focusing on an institution and a social practice at the heart of everyday life in early modern England, this book allows us to see some of the ways in which ordinary men and women responded to historical processes such as religious change and state formation, and just as importantly reveals how they shaped their own communities and collective identities. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social, cultural and political worlds of the ordinary men and women of seventeenth-century England. MARK HAILWOOD is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
Title Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Mark Breitenberg
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 240
Release 1996-03-14
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780521485883

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Explores the importance of heterosexual masculine identity in Renaissance literature and culture.

The Social Life of Coffee

The Social Life of Coffee
Title The Social Life of Coffee PDF eBook
Author Brian Cowan
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 376
Release 2008-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 0300133502

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What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Society in Early Modern England

Society in Early Modern England
Title Society in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Phil Withington
Publisher Polity
Pages 311
Release 2010-09-20
Genre History
ISBN 0745641296

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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have traditionally been regarded by historians as a period of intense and formative historical change, so much so that they have often been described as ‘early modern' - an epoch separate from ‘the medieval' and ‘the modern'. Paying particular attention to England, this book reflects on the implications of this categorization for contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and society. The book traces the forgotten history of the phrase 'early modern' to its coinage as a category of historical analysis by the Victorians and considers when and why words like 'modern' and 'society' were first introduced into English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In so doing it unpicks the connections between linguistic and social change and how the consequences of those processes still resonate today. A major contribution to our understanding of European history before 1700 and its resonance for social thought today, the book will interest anybody concerned with the historical antecedents of contemporary culture and the interconnections between the past and the present.

The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689

The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689
Title The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 PDF eBook
Author Chris R. Langley
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 265
Release 2020
Genre History
ISBN 1783275308

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What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

Old Country Inns of England

Old Country Inns of England
Title Old Country Inns of England PDF eBook
Author Henry Parr Maskell
Publisher
Pages 352
Release 1911
Genre England
ISBN

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Vanishing England

Vanishing England
Title Vanishing England PDF eBook
Author Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Publisher
Pages 430
Release 1910
Genre England
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