Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

by A. Lynn Martin, L.J. Martin, L. Martin

Book Overview

This book examines the effects of alcohol on gender relations in traditional Europe, focussing on England, France, and Italy in the late medieval and early modern periods, roughly 1300 to 1700. While alcohol causes physiological changes that are scientifically verifiable, the work of anthropologists reveals that much of what passes for drinking behavior and drunken comportment varies from one society to the next. In traditional Europe, as in modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312234147
• ISBN13: 9780312234140
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"