1. HEA Workshop: Teaching Alcohol Studies in History Exploring the early modern ‘World of the Tavern’ Year 3 Advanced Option Beat Kümin History Bartel Beham, ‘Village Fair’ (c. 1530)

2. Aims Trade card of the ‘Yellow House’ inn at Stuttgart (late 18thC) Use drinking in principal hubs of face-to- face and long-distance communication to Obtain ‘windows’ onto pre-modern society and culture more generally

3. Coverage, Themes & Approaches English, French and Germanic contexts c. 1400-1800 Publicans, patrons, catering, cultural services, gender relations, crime, change over time, interactions with community / church / state … Social & cultural history; food studies; gender relations; art history; literature; anthropology; spatial theory …

4. Teaching & Learning Impulse lectures Seminar discussion Group presentations Individual reviews Module forumforum 2 field trips Short essay, book review & mock exam Dissertation and/or written exam Franz Niklaus König, ‘Waitress in Bernese Costume’ (coloured etching, 1806)

5. Resourcing Large module website provides: Written evidence – esp. excerpts from Voices from the Tavern (4 vol./2000 pp. source collection, P&C, 2011)Voices from the Tavern Visual records – woodcuts, art databases, maps & ground plans …art databasesmaps & ground plans Material culture – buildings, signs, bottles, glasses, tables … buildingsbottlesglasses Musical samples – harmonia mundi: ‘Trinkt und singt’ (drink & sing)Trinkt und singt Access to yet limited, but fast-growing specialist literature Adriaen Brouwer, ‘Peasant Brawl’ (oil on oak, c. 1630)

6. … AND NOW ALSO …NOWALSO

7. The Burford Experience Ideal Walkabout ‘School trip’, bonding Student perspectives gainedgained

8. Gastro-Seminar Recapitulation of walkabout: topography, locations, dimensions, features, layout … Relation to wider sociological, architectural and spatial debates (container vs social construction) Experience of: - ‘place’ - drinking - sociability - meal rituals

9. Pre-modern ‘alcohol’ studies enhance student learning by… … utilizing numerous types of evidence and approaches, each with specific opportunities and challenges … illuminating complex cultural roles of key commodity, highlighting both social benefits and costs … sharpening awareness of diachronic change by focusing on long-term evolution of a principal social site … combining classroom discussion with field trips and personal experience … being (still) unusual and (hopefully) fun

10. … but not without problems … … asking a lot of pre-modern sources … generalizing from personal impressions … getting seduced by colourful cases and/or frustrated by sheer complexity of phenomenon … running behind debates in other disciplines … taking students with little/no period experience … alcohol consumption as part of curriculum

11. Collaborative / comparative potential? Warwick Drinking Studies Network Warwick Drinking Studies Network Interdisciplinary All periods Workshops Collaborative projects Teaching initiatives?

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