Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism
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| Summary: | XVII, 407 p. 26 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94620-3 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Brewing (historical perspectives on the production of beer and ale in Medieval Europe)
- Conan Doyle, Ale and Beer in Early Medieval England: A Survey of Evidence
- Mark Edwin Peterson, Reliving the Drink: The Difficulties of Medieval Beer History versus the Desire for Historical Beer
- Susan Verberg, Reconstructing medieval gruit ale: separating facts from fiction
- Part II Drinking (on the cultural meanings of beer in the Middle Ages; medieval drinking culture)
- Richard Fahey, The Wonders of Ebrietas: Drinking in Anglo-Saxon Riddles
- Fernando Guerrero, Sacred Beer: Pre-Christian Cultural and Economic Perceptions of Alcoholic Beverages in Medieval Norwegian and Icelandic Liturgy
- Randy Schiff, Alcohol, Community, and Chaucer’s Pardoner: Ale as a Populist Antidote to Alienating Avant-Gardism
- Part III: Gender (on beer and women.)
- Rosemary O’Neill, Devil’s Brew: Alwives and the Medieval Antecedents of Infernal Imagery in Contemporary Beer Marketing
- Carissa M. Harris, From Tapsters to Beer Wenches: Women, Alcohol, and Misogyny Then and Now
- Rebecca Straple, ‘Far From Drunk With Ale’: Women, Alcohol, and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
- Part IV Ludic Medievalism (on the Middle Ages as a space of play in modern perceptions of beer)
- Noelle Phillips, Playing with Vikings: Ludic Medievalism in Norse-Themed Breweries
- Anna Czarnowus,‘Harsh, violent, muddy,’ or Ale and Beer in Adam Thorpe’s Hodd
- Part V Nostalgic Medievalisms (on uses of the medieval past in the context of beer to bolster nationalist projects)
- Mary Bateman, Nostalgic medievalism in Peter Mews’ Ex-Ale-Tation of Ale (1663)
- John A. Geck, Codex Cervisarius: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Medievalism of Craft Beer in Quebec and Ontario
- Robert Saunders, Latvia’s Labietis: Modern Craft Brewing across the Pagan-Christian Threshold
- Donovan Tann, ‘God wotte what liquor’: Brewing History and Memory in Early Modern England
- Afterword.