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Publisher: Routledge, 2005.
Hard Cover, 213 pages, 6.25 x 9.50.
Item #1381
Europe has a long and rich beer-making tradition, which developed independently of any traditions in the Mid East or Egypt. A great deal of the very early history of beer in Europe can only be reconstructed from a few rare archaeological remains. However, from the seventh century B.C. onwards, the history of European beers is told, paradoxically enough, almost entirely from those who did not drink beer, the Greeks and Romans. The Barbarian's Beverage presents a large amount of the evidence for beer in ancient Europe for the first time, and demonstrates the important technological as well as idealogical contributions the Europeans made to beer throughout the ages. The book provides a fresh and fascinating insight into one of the most popular beverages in the world today. Max Nelson is assistant professor of Classics at the University of Windsor in Canada. 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
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