Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, 1500-1800

Until recently the role of the public drinking house has been approached from elitist, folkloric and anecdotal perspectives. The work of a new generation of social historians, however, has raised the tavern’s profile in the academic consciousness and confirmed its position within the mainstream of social and cultural history. It is now recognized that an understanding of the centrality of public drinking to the development of both elite and popular culture is vital to studies of social behaviour. The study of taverns has also been at the forefront of emerging interest in the history of consumption and material culture, and has contributed to a richer understanding of economic history. Constructions of gender and identity are also visible through research into the patterns of behaviour and discourse in and around the public house. This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives. The documents are translated and set in their social and historical context, providing a multidisciplinary collection that will be of great importance to scholars of all areas of social and cultural history of the early modern period. The vast majority of this material is published here for the first time, ensuring that the collection will open up new avenues of research. Volume 1 draws heavily from the Parisian police archives and includes inspectors’ reports, complaints by the general public and details of court cases to build a picture of drinking in early modern France. Volumes 2 and 3 address public drinking in the Holy Roman Empire through a variety of chronicles, civic ordinances, court records, travel reports and surveys of public houses. Volume 4 locates taverns within a broader analysis of America’s public houses, drawing on visual material as well as journal entries, business reports and newspaper articles. Each volume is accompanied by editorial introductions and is annotated to provide readers with a high-quality resource of scholarly material.

Professors of German Universities (e.g. Cologne, Heidelberg) in Italy (1400-1550) and the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG)

The RAG’s task is to collect biographical and social data on those Theologians, Jurists, Physicians, and Masters of Arts, who studied at a university between 1250 and 1550. The information is entered into a prosopographic database that will finally cover the entire territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Non-graduated noble visitors of universities are also taken into account. The RAG, which in the end will be a “who is who” of the scholars of the Old Empire, offers divers new and interdisciplinary perspectives due to its vast collection of data. Qualitative and quantitative statements on the intellectual elite of the Empire, their European networks, as well as institutional and territorial comparisons will be possible. Thus the scholars' role in pre-modern society can be described on a firm empirical basis and explained within the framework of modern educational research, with special reference to social, cultural, and scientific history. Up to 50,000 scholars are to be expected.

(Figures 2,3) Lipid composition of liver and muscles of the daubed shanny (Leptoclinus maculatus), Kongsfjorden

A comparative study on the lipid composition of the liver and muscles has been performed in daubed shanny caught in summer (July) in Arctic waters at three different sites (biotopes) along the north-western coast of Spitsbergen. In marine organisms living at high latitudes, lipids play an especially important role, primarily as reserve substances and as a factor influencing adaptation to severe environmental conditions. Since the ecology of daubed shanny is poorly known, the data obtained may be considered novel.

Deutsche Reichstagsakten : jüngere Reihe /

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Three speeches of Adolphe Thiers (with introduction)

I. France, Italy, and Germany. March 14th, 1867.--II. The Roman question. [Dec. 2d, 1867]--III. The origin of the Franco-German war.

Studi sull' imperatore M. Aurelio Caro.

Mode of access: Internet.

Oratio super civitate Gallis danda.

Mode of access: Internet.

Die hundert Beschwerden der gesammten deutschen Nation, dem römischen Stuhle übergeben im Jahre 1523, ihrer Wichtigkeit wegen in Erinnerung gebracht und mit Anemrkungen begleitet von Gr.M. Weber.

Mode of access: Internet.

Geschichte des Riechstags zu Augsburg im Jahre 1530 nebst einer Untersuchung über den Werth der Augsburgischen Confession.

Mode of access: Internet.

Urkundenbuch zu der Geschichte des Reichstages zu Augsburg im Jahre 1530. : Nach den Originalen und nach gleichzeitigen Handschriften /

Bound in full yellow sand design paper covered boards with title in gilt on black calf label mounted on spine.

Justinianus harmonicus exhibens introductionem ad jurisprudentiam hodiernam communem; harmoniam ... statutorum praecipuorum praesentium magnae Germaniae & antiquorum teutonum morum, & Israelitarum, & romanorum, aliarumq; gentium legum ... opera & studio Henrici Gieseberti anno 1657, & rev. auctusque 1663 ...

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Deütschland seit hundert jahren. Geschichte der gebiets-eintheilung und der politischen verfassung des vaterlandes.

1. abth. Deütschland vor hundert jahren. 2 v.--2. abth. Deütschland vor fünfzig jahren. 3 v.

Gemius loci; notes on places,

I. Augsburg.--II. Holy week in Tuscany.--III-IV. In Touraine.--V. Siena and Simon Martini.--VI. Among the marble mountains.--VII. The epitaphs at Detwang.--VIII. Fribourg.--IX. France again.--X. The lion of St. Mark's and Admiral Morosini.--XI. Charcoal and ice.--XII. St. Geryon of Cologne.--XIII. In Piedmont.--XIV. Bayeux and the tapestry.--XV. The lakes of Mantua.--XVI. Ansbach and the Knights of the Swan.--XVII. High up.--XVIII. The south.

Einleitung zu dem Teutschen Jure publico, oder Staats-Rechte : worinnen die allermeisten, vornehmsten und wichtigsten in selbigem vorkommende Materien enthalten, zugleich deren Ursprung, samt des Römisch-Teutschen Reichs seinem wie auch desselben Einricht- Abtheil- und Verfassung, aus der Historie und denen Fundamental-Gesetzen gewiesen, danebenst die Ankunfft der hohen chur- und fürstl. Familien gründlich untersuchet, verschiedene genealogischen Dubia erörtert, deren Auff- und Abnehmen, Ansprüche, Rechte, Länder, samt dieser ihrer Beschaffenheit und jedes Wappen, nebst der Rang-Ordnung zugleich mit angemercket wird /

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Treaty of peace between His imperial and Catholick Majesty Charles VI, and His royal Catholic Majesty Philip V, concluded at Vienna the 30th of April 1725. Treaty of Commerce between His imperial and Catholick Majesty Charles VI, and His royal Catholick Majesty Philip V, concluded at Vienna, May 1, 1725. Treaty between the King of Great Britain, the most Christian King, and the King of Prussia, made at Hanover the 3rd of September, 1725 [microform].

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