Wine drinking in Oxford 1640-1850

ISBN-13: 9780860548553 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 220 str.

Banks, Fay

Opis

Recent excavations beneath Oxford colleges have revealed layers upon layers of beef bones and smashed glass bottles. Clearly academic life in Oxford has always had its advantages This catalog of bottles and seals in the Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Oxford is much enlivened by the author's discussion of wine-drinking culture in England generally, and Oxford in particular. From the earliest wine bottles produced by a few licensed individuals, to the unlicensed wholesaling of wine after 1752, the author traces how changing social and political patterns affected the shape of bottles and their decoration. There is one color plate, but most of the figures are of a rather basic black and white (laser printer) quality.