Beat Kumin is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of "The Communal Age in Western Europe "c". 1100-1800 "(2013), "Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe "(2007) and "The Shaping of a Community: The Rise & Reformation of the English Parish c. 1400-1560 "(1996). He is also the editor of "A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age" (2012), "Political Space in Pre-industrial Europe "(2009) and "The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History "(2nd Ed., 2014), amongst