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

Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility from about 1560 to 1630

The beer of today—brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, spor

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