This book examines drinking and attitudes to alcohol consumption in late medieval and early modern England, France, and Italy, especially as they related to sex

Traditional Europe had high levels of violence and of alcohol consumption, both higher than they are in modern Western societies, where studies demonstrate a li

A delicious introduction to the food prepared in wealthy medieval French households

This book examines how the profound religious, political, and intellectual shifts that characterize the early modern period in Europe are inextricably linked to

First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middl