PLEASING SINNE: DRINK AND CONVIVIALITY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND; ED. BY ADAM SMYTH.

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"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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Alcoholism in literature,  Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature,  Drinking customs,  Drinking of alcoholic beverages,  History,  England, social life and customs,  Alcoholism,  Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714