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Kümin, Beat A.. (2005) The Devil's altar? : crime and the early modern public house. History Compass, Vol.2 (No.1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 1478-0542

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-0542.071

Abstract

Was the early modern public house really such a dangerous place, as Puritan preachers (and many historians) suggested? This article discusses offences by publicans and patrons. It argues that the evidence for crime needs to be carefully contextualised and that taverns could stabilise as well as threaten the social order.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain

Divisions:

Faculty of Arts > History

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Great Britain -- History, Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Social aspects

Journal or Publication Title:

History Compass

Publisher:

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

ISSN:

1478-0542

Official Date:

21 December 2005

Dates:

Date	Event
21 December 2005	Published

Volume:

Vol.2

Number:

No.1

Page Range:

pp. 1-3

Identification Number:

10.1111/j.1478-0542.071

Status:

Not Peer Reviewed

Access rights to Published version:

Open Access

Version or Related Resource:

An earlier version of this article appeared in Warwick the Magazine Issue 3 (Autumn 2003)

References:

[Anon.], The bloody inkeeper, or Sad and barbarous news from Glocester-shire (London, 1675)
Fontes Rerum Bernensium (10 vols, Bern, 1883-1956)
Gemeindearchiv Neuenegg, Chorgerichts-Manuale, vols. 1.1-3 (1650 ff.)
Martin, A. Lynn, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Basingstoke, 2001)
Muchembled, R., Popular Culture and Elite Culture in France (Baton Rouge, 1985)
Römer, A., ‘Luther und die Trinksitten’, Die Alkoholfrage 13 (1917), pp. 100-114
Tlusty, B. Ann, Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany (Charlottesville, 2001)

URI:

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/289

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