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Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0813920450
ISBN-13:: 9780813920450
Pub. Date:: 07/29/2001
Publisher:: University of Virginia Press

ISBN-10:: 0813920450
ISBN-13:: 9780813920450
Pub. Date:: 07/29/2001
Publisher:: University of Virginia Press

Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany / Edition 1

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Lining the streets inside the city's gates, clustered in its center, and thinly scattered among its back quarters were Augsburg's taverns and drinking rooms. These institutions ranged from the poorly lit rooms of backstreet wine sellers to the elaborate marble halls frequented by society's most privileged members. Urban drinking rooms provided more than food, drink, and lodging for their guests. They also conferred upon their visitors a sense of social identity commensurate with their status. Like all German cities, Augsburg during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had a history shaped by the political events attending the Reformation, the post-Reformation, and the Thirty Years' War; its social and political character was also reflected and supported by its public and private drinking rooms.

In Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany, Ann Tlusty examines the social and cultural functions served by drinking and tavern life in Germany between 1500 and 1700, and challenges existing theories about urban identity, sociability, and power. Through her reconstruction of the social history of Augsburg, from beggars to council members, Tlusty also sheds light on such diverse topics as social ritual, gender and household relations, medical practice, and the concerns of civic leaders with public health and poverty. Drunkenness, dueling, and other forms of tavern comportment that may appear "disorderly" to us today turn out to be the inevitable, even desirable result of a society functioning according to its own rules.

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ISBN-13:	9780813920450
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	07/29/2001
Series:	Studies in Early Modern German History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

B. Ann Tlusty is Associate Professor of History at Bucknell University.

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"This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example." -- Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Lyndal Roper

This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example.

Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London

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This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example.

Lyndal Roper

"This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example. "—Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe

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This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example.

Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London

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