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Author(s): Max Nelson
ISBN(s): 9780415311212, 020330912X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 8.28 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 020330912X 
ISBN 13: 9780415311212
Author: Max Nelson

Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans made to beer throughout the ages. The study is supported by textual and archaeological evidence and gives a fresh and fascinating insight into an aspect of ancient life that has fed through to modern society and which stands today as one of the world’s most popular beverages. Students of ancient history, classical studies and the history of food and drink will find this an useful and enjoyable read.

The Barbarian s Beverage A History of Beer in Ancient Europe 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
Beer and other alcoholic beverages
Beer and society
Modern scholarship on ancient European beer
Overview
2 Beer in the east and west
Origins
Prehistoric northern Europe
Southern Europe
The first mentions of beer in the west
The baked and the brewed
3 The Greek prejudice against beer
The roots of beer prejudice
The causes of beer prejudice
4 The two drinking ideologies of ancient Europe
5 The Celts and the great beer decline
Prehistoric Celtic Europe
Southern Gaul
Celtiberia
Northern Gaul
Britain
6 The Roman empire and the rule of wine
Beer and law
Beer and medicine
The Roman Church
The Irish Church
7 Germanic Europe and the great beer revival
The Germans
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Merovingian Gaul
Carolingian Gaul
The legacy
8 Conclusion
Notes
1 Introduction
2 Beer in the east and west
3 The Greek prejudice against beer
4 The two drinking ideologies of ancient europe
5 The Celts and the great beer decline
6 The Roman Empire and the rule of wine
7 Germanic Europe and the great beer revival

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