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Exploring the Early Modern 'World of the Tavern'

Discover the cultural, social, and economic significance of taverns in early modern times. This interdisciplinary course delves into topics such as hospitality, sociability, services, food, gender roles, and more. Through texts, images, music, and material culture, students will gain a deeper understanding of this fascinating period.

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Exploring the Early Modern 'World of the Tavern'

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  1. T+L Showcase Theme 1: InterdisciplinarityExploring the early modern ‘World of the Tavern’Year 3 Advanced Option Beat Kümin History

  2. What’s itall about? • Hospitality • Sociability • Services Trade card of the ‘Yellow House’ inn at Stuttgart (late 18thC) • Early modern ‘golden age’

  3. A conducive theme • Early modern cultural history • Food studies • Social status and social exchange • Politics and economics • Gender roles • Written, visual and material evidence

  4. Dilemma As with fostering ‘skills’: • integrate seamlessly into all tasks? • highlight in designated sessions?

  5. ‘Tavern’ Approach • 2 special sessions • 1 field trip • Review presentations Franz NiklausKönig, ‘Waitress in Bernese Costume’ (coloured etching, 1806)

  6. Early modern voices • Texts • normative, administrative, literary… • Images • woodcuts, paintings, maps, floor plans … • Music • harmonia mundi:‘Trinkt und singt’ (drink & sing) • Material culture • buildings, signs, glasses, tables … AdriaenBrouwer, ‘Peasant Brawl’ (oil on oak, c. 1630)

  7. Field Trip • Preparation • History: Moody, Inns of Burford • Local facts, figures and trends • Sociology: Gieryn, ‘A space for place’ • ‘placemakers’ and the social constitution of space • Architecture: Pearson & Richards, ‘Perceptions’ • space syntax (e.g. access analysis) • space symbolism (location, threshold, ornaments)

  8. The BurfordExperience • ‘School trip’ • Sightseeing • Student perspective • Getting a drink!

  9. Gastro-Seminar • Hands-on experience: - building - sociability - meal ritual • Recapitulation of walkabout: location, size, features, layout … • Wider sociological and architectural insights • Introduction to spatial theory (from mere container to relational construct; ‘Bear court’)

  10. Tutor Evaluation • Different dynamic, personal encounters • Relaxed atmosphere, pretty setting • Unusual learning environment • Key variables: students, timing, weather ... • Some inspiring discussions, others basic • Tutor’s limitations (style, jargon, theory): historicized ‘informed layman’ approach • Risk assessment ! • Yet thoroughly worthwhile

  11. Student Evaluation • Average questionnaire score: 4.5 out of 5 • Qualitative feedback: • More field trips ! • Some struggle to understand/see relevance of non-history texts

  12. Future opportunities?Warwick Drinking Studies Network • Interdisciplinary • All periods • Annual Symposium • External Conference • Collaborative research • Teaching initiatives?

  13. Thanks ! • Questions, suggestions ...

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