A Pleasing Sinne
Subtitle: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England (Studies in Renaissance Literature) (Studies in Renaissance Literature)
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781843840091
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Renaissance; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary studies: general; Social Classes; 17th century; Drinking customs; Drinking of alcoholic beverage; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature; England; History
Description: "By discussing diverse social contexts - from the Inns of Court to rural Derbyshire - contributors ask what kinds of etiquettes and rituals governed different drinking communities in the seventeenth century." "The influence of particular kinds of drink - claret, port, beer, ale, cider, perry - and particular kinds of drinkers in generating discourses of politics, nationalism and xenophobia is considered; and the notions of moderation and excess are analysed: while early modern medicinal tracts championed measured drinking of wine and beer as a cure for sickness, drunkenness was consistently and dramatically aligned with physical decay, madness and sedition."

"The range of texts discussed is broad: popular broadside ballads and husbandry manuals; dramatic works; verse collections; manuscript miscellanies; scientific and medical tracts; and political treaties."--Jacket.