Title: Coffee and coffeehouses : the origins of a social beverage in the medieval Near East /
Authors: Hattox, Ralph S.
Publisher: University of Washington Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Coffee Middle East History.; Coffeehouses Middle East History.; Coffee History; Coffeehouses History.; Coffee history
Contents: The great coffee controversy -- The coming of coffee to the Near East -- Coffee, coffeehouses, and the opposition -- Wine, coffee, and the Holy Law -- Lethargy, leprosy, and melancholia : coffee and medieval medicine -- Taverns without wine : the rise of the coffeehouse -- Society and the social life of the coffeehouse -- The coffeehouse : social norms, social symbols.