Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)

✍ Scribed by A. Lynn Martin

Publisher: Palgrave MD
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 211
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines drinking and attitudes to alcohol consumption in late medieval and early modern England, France, and Italy, especially as they related to sexual and violent behavior and to gender relations. According to widespread beliefs, the consumption of alcohol led to increased sexual activity among both men and women, and it also led to disorderly conduct among women and violent conduct among men. A. Lynn Martin shows how alcohol was a fundamental part of the diets of most people, including women, resulting in daily drinking of large amounts of ale, beer, or wine. This study offers an intimate insight into both the altered states induced by alcohol, and, by opposition, into normal relations in family, community, and society.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Early Modern History: Society and Culture......Page 2
Alcohol, Sex, and Genderin Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe - A. Lynn Martin......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
The functions of alcohol in traditional Europe......Page 12
Variations over time and place......Page 17
Alcohol, sex, and gender......Page 20
Sources and method......Page 23
2 Women and Alcohol......Page 28
Abstinent and temperate women......Page 29
Drinking women......Page 30
The functions of alcohol......Page 35
Playing with statistics......Page 39
Explaining it away......Page 43
3 Sex and Alcohol......Page 49
The symbolism of alcohol......Page 50
Conception and pregnancy......Page 53
Variations on Lot and Terence......Page 56
Weddings......Page 62
4 Alehouses, Taverns, and Prostitutes......Page 69
The sociability of drinking......Page 70
The devil’s church......Page 73
Prostitutes......Page 77
Female keepers......Page 81
The clientele......Page 84
Foreplay......Page 90
Seduction and rape......Page 94
In alehouses and taverns......Page 98
Promiscuity and impotence......Page 103
The unruly woman in literature......Page 107
The unruly woman in ‘life’......Page 115
Drinking men......Page 119
Alcohol and violence......Page 122
7 Husbands and Wives......Page 130
Good fellows and shrewish wives......Page 131
The economic cost of drinking......Page 135
Adultery......Page 137
Domestic violence......Page 139
8 Conclusion......Page 145
1 Introduction......Page 152
2 Women and Alcohol......Page 157
3 Sex and Alcohol......Page 164
4 Alehouses, Taverns, and Prostitutes......Page 173
5 Sexual Encounters......Page 180
6 Unruly Women and Violent Men......Page 184
7 Husbands and Wives......Page 189
8 Conclusion......Page 192
Primary sources......Page 193
Secondary sources......Page 196
Index......Page 203

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