1. MEDIEVAL INNS AND TAVERNS JOHANNA RODRIGUEZ JANUARY 29, 2013 PERIOD 2

2. MEDIEVAL INNS AND TAVERNS  Inns and taverns began to appear in the twelfth and thirteenth century in England but we not considered common until the fifteenth century.  Travelers that would come into town could find lodging in inns or could buy drinks in taverns.

3.  In a tavern scene it would be considered common sight for people to sing, gamble, or seek prostitution.  Both women and men were allowed in taverns since drinking was by far their favorite recreation.  In those times one could buy three gallons of beer, ale, or wine for one penny. MEDIEVAL TAVERNS

4.  Taverns rarely provided travelers with lodging or feasts for the night.  Most taverns were front rooms of peoples houses where they would brew ale and let others come and buy beer for profit.

5.  Due to spending all evening in a local pub, there were several fatal accidents that followed drunken visitors.  One mother was said to have accidently let her child slip from her lap into a boiling pot of milk and the child was mortally burned. MEDIEVAL TAVERNS

6. MEDIEVAL INNS  Unlike taverns which had a few rooms and a cellar full of wine, Inns had several rooms and building, enough to keep guests upstairs, separate rooms for the innkeeper and their family, a large drinking room, a kitchen, and a brew house.  There was also space in a warehouse for cargo and barns for the horses and storage.

7. MEDIEVAL INNS  Monasteries sometimes built inns at the center of pilgrimage to attract wary travelers.  Those travelers would suffice with a warm room and a mattress or some straw on the floor, and one would rarely find a comfortable bed to sleep on.

8. MEDIEVAL INNS AND TAVERNS  Taverns would put out makeshift signs with branches and leaves to signify that people could buy wine.  Inns would stick pictorial signs on poles out of the wall in the fourteenth century.

9.  Because wine was more expensive than beer or ale, prosperous patrons were catered to.  Taverns provided for the higher classes while inns provided cheap beer and ale for the lower, poorer classes. MEDIEVAL INNS AND TAVERNS

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