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Bacchus and Civic Order : The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Early Modern German History SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813921709
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bacchus and Civic OrderDDC classification:
  • 394.1/2/0943375
LOC classification:
  • GT2883.G3T58 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The City and Its Taverns -- Chapter 2: Augsburg's Tavern Keepers -- Chapter 3: The Drunken Body -- Chapter 4: The Drunken Spirit -- Chapter 5: Drunkenness and the Law -- Chapter 6: The Contract Drink -- Chapter 7: Drinking and Gender Identity -- Chapter 8: Drinking and Social Identity -- Chapter 9: The Social Functions of the Tavern -- Chapter 10: Drinking and Public Order -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Drunkenness, dueling, and other forms of tavern comportment that may appear "disorderlyto us today turn out to be the inevitable, even desirable result of a society functioning according to its own rules.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The City and Its Taverns -- Chapter 2: Augsburg's Tavern Keepers -- Chapter 3: The Drunken Body -- Chapter 4: The Drunken Spirit -- Chapter 5: Drunkenness and the Law -- Chapter 6: The Contract Drink -- Chapter 7: Drinking and Gender Identity -- Chapter 8: Drinking and Social Identity -- Chapter 9: The Social Functions of the Tavern -- Chapter 10: Drinking and Public Order -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Drunkenness, dueling, and other forms of tavern comportment that may appear "disorderlyto us today turn out to be the inevitable, even desirable result of a society functioning according to its own rules.

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