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Beat Kümin History

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). Trade card of the ‘Yellow House’ inn at Stuttgart (late 18thC). Aims.

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Beat Kümin History

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

  2. Trade card of the ‘Yellow House’inn at Stuttgart (late 18thC) Aims • Usedrinking 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 forum • 2 field trips • Short essay, book review & mock exam • Dissertation and/or written exam Franz NiklausKönig, ‘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) • 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 AdriaenBrouwer, ‘Peasant Brawl’ (oil on oak, c. 1630)

  6. … AND NOWALSO …

  7. The BurfordExperience • Ideal • Walkabout • ‘School trip’, bonding • Student perspectivesgained

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

  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 • Interdisciplinary • All periods • Workshops • Collaborative projects • Teaching initiatives?

  12. Thanks ! Looking forward to your comments

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