Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England

Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.

List of contents

Introduction
'True and Principal Uses': The Role and Regulation of Alehouses
'Authority and Good Government Trampled Underfoot': Authority and the Alehouse
'Good Companions and Fellow-boozers': The Idiom of Good Fellowship
'Joining and Fastening Together': The Practice and Bonds of Good Fellowship
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Mark Hailwood

Product details

• Authors: Mark Hailwood
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2014
• EAN: 9781843839422
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-942-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries