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Book England s Bane  or  the Description of Drunkennesse

Download or read book England s Bane or the Description of Drunkennesse written by Thomas Young (student of Staple Inn.) and published by . This book was released on 1634 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England s Bane   Or  the Description of Drunkennesse

Download or read book England s Bane Or the Description of Drunkennesse written by Thomas Young (student of Staple Inn.) and published by . This book was released on 1617 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England s Bane   Or  the Description of Drunkennesse

Download or read book England s Bane Or the Description of Drunkennesse written by Thomas Young (student of Staple Inn.) and published by . This book was released on 1617 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Englands bane  or  The description of drunkennesse  Composed and written by Thomas Young  sometimes student of Staple  Inne

Download or read book Englands bane or The description of drunkennesse Composed and written by Thomas Young sometimes student of Staple Inne written by Thomas Young (student of Staple Inn) and published by . This book was released on 1634 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England

Download or read book Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England written by Mark Hailwood and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Pleasing Sinne

Download or read book A Pleasing Sinne written by Adam Smyth and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the representation and understanding of drink and conviviality in diverse social contexts.

Book The Hangover

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathon Shears
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 1789621194
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Hangover written by Jonathon Shears and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is ahangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us aboutthe way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? This book sets out toanswer these questions and many others by examining 'hangover literature' fromthe Renaissance to the present day.

Book Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature

Download or read book Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature written by Joshua Scodel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates.

Book The Pub in Literature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Earnshaw
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780719053054
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Pub in Literature written by Steven Earnshaw and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Earnshaw traces the many roles of the drinking house in literature from Chaucer's time to the end of the 20th century, taking in the better-known hostelries, such as Hal's and Falstaff's Boar's Head in Henry IV, and the inns of Dickens.

Book English Tracts  Pamphlets and Printed Sheets

Download or read book English Tracts Pamphlets and Printed Sheets written by James Harvey Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love  Friendship and Faith in Europe  1300   1800

Download or read book Love Friendship and Faith in Europe 1300 1800 written by L. Gowing and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the most intimate and erotically charged to the reciprocities of village life. This is a rich offering in social and cultural history that is attuned to the pervasive language of religion. A hidden history is revealed - of friendships that we have lost, and of friendships starkly, and movingly, familiar.

Book A Hand List of the Early English Literature Preserved in the Douce Collection in the Bodleain Library

Download or read book A Hand List of the Early English Literature Preserved in the Douce Collection in the Bodleain Library written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Hand list of the Early English Literature Preserved in the Douce Collection in the Bodleian Library

Download or read book A Hand list of the Early English Literature Preserved in the Douce Collection in the Bodleian Library written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama

Download or read book Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama written by Katrine K. Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or musical dramaturgy, and complicates the current discussion of musical portrayal and construction of gender during this period. Wong discusses dramaturgical meanings of music and its association with gender, love, and erotomania in Renaissance plays. The negotiation between the dichotomous qualities of the heavenly and the demonic finds extensive application in recent studies of music in early modern English plays. However, while ideological dualities identified in music in traditional Renaissance thinking may seem unequivocal, various musical representations of characters and situations in early modern drama would prove otherwise. Wong, building upon the conventional model of binarism, explores how playwrights created their musical characters and scenarios according to the received cultural use and perception of music, and, at the same time, experimented with the multivalent meanings and significance embodied in theatrical music.

Book Check list Or Brief Catalogue of the English Books  1475 1640  in the Henry E  Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Download or read book Check list Or Brief Catalogue of the English Books 1475 1640 in the Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery written by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brutal Reasoning

Download or read book Brutal Reasoning written by Erica Fudge and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal Reasoning, the discussions were not as straightforward—or as reflexively anthropocentric—as has been assumed. Surveying a wide range of texts-religious, philosophical, literary, even comic-Fudge explains the crucial role that reason played in conceptualizations of the human and the animal, as well as the distinctions between the two. Brutal Reasoning looks at the ways in which humans were conceptualized, at what being "human" meant, and at how humans could lose their humanity. It also takes up the questions of what made an animal an animal, why animals were studied in the early modern period, and at how people understood, and misunderstood, what they saw when they did look. From the influence of classical thinking on the human-animal divide and debates surrounding the rationality of women, children, and Native Americans to the frequent references in popular and pedagogical texts to Morocco the Intelligent Horse, Fudge gives a new and vital context to the human perception of animals in this period. At the same time, she challenges overly simplistic notions about early modern attitudes to animals and about the impact of those attitudes on modern culture.

Book Alcohol  Violence  and Disorder in Traditional Europe

Download or read book Alcohol Violence and Disorder in Traditional Europe written by A. Lynn Martin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Europe had high levels of violence and of alcohol consumption, both higher than they are in modern Western societies, where studies demonstrate a link between violence and alcohol. A. Lynn Martin uses an anthropological approach to examine drinking, drinking establishments, violence, and disorder, and compares the wine-producing south with the beer-drinking north and Catholic France and Italy with Protestant England, and explores whether alcohol consumption can also explain the violence and disorder of traditional Europe. Both Catholic and Protestant moralists believed in the link, and they condemned drunkenness and drinking establishments for causing violence and disorder. They did not advocate complete abstinence, however, for alcoholic beverages had an important role in most people's diets. Less appreciated by the moralists was alcohol's function as the ubiquitous social lubricant and the increasing importance of alehouses and taverns as centers of popular recreation. The study utilizes both quantitative and qualitative evidence from a wide variety of sources to question the beliefs of the moralists and the assumptions of modern scholars about the role of alcohol and drinking establishments in causing violence and disorder. It ends by analyzing the often-conflicting regulations of local, regional, and national governments that attempted to ensure that their citizens had a reliable supply of good drink at a reasonable cost but also to control who drank what, where, when, and how. No other comparable book examines the relationship of alcohol to violence and disorder during this period.