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HEA Workshop: Teaching Alcohol Studies in History
Exploring the early modern ‘World of the Tavern’
Year 3 Advanced Option
Beat KüminHistory
Bartel Beham, ‘Village Fair’ (c. 1530)
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
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 …
Teaching & Learning
• Impulse lectures• Seminar discussion• Group presentations• Individual reviews• Module forum• 2 field trips• Short essay, book review
& mock exam• Dissertation and/or
written examFranz Niklaus König,
‘Waitress in Bernese Costume’ (coloured etching, 1806)
ResourcingLarge module website provides:
• Written evidence– esp. excerpts from Voices from the Tavern
(4 vol./2000 pp. source collection, P&C, 2011)• Visual records
– woodcuts, art databases, maps & ground plans …• Material culture
– buildings, signs, bottles, glasses, tables … • Musical samples
– harmonia mundi: ‘Trinkt und singt’ (drink & sing)• Access to yet limited, but fast-growing specialist literature
Adriaen Brouwer, ‘Peasant Brawl’
(oil on oak, c. 1630)
… AND NOW ALSO …
The Burford Experience
• Ideal• Walkabout
• ‘School trip’, bonding• Student perspectives gained
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
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
… 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
Collaborative / comparative potential?Warwick Drinking Studies Network
• Interdisciplinary• All periods• Workshops • Collaborative projects• Teaching initiatives?
Thanks !
Looking forward to your comments