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Drinking in Medieval England Revisited

5/30/2026

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Illuminated manuscript image of a woman in a red dress holding a tankard outside of a tavern
Taverns are frequently imagined as bleak, rowdy places occupied exclusively by men but for the occasional buxom serving wench. The popular image, however, does not match the depiction of drinking establishments in medieval sources. Learn more about how medieval drinking establishments should be envisioned in this special revisiting episode of Footnoting History. 

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Further Reading

Judith Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600, Oxford University Press, (1996).

Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830, Longman, (1983).

Mark Hailwood, Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England, Boydell, (2014).

Barbara Hanawalt. “The Host, the Law and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns,” in Medieval Crime and Social Control, ed. Barbara Hanawalt and David Walace (University of Minnesota Press, 1999): 204-223.

Beat Kümin, Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, (2007).

Samantha Sagui, “Social Space and Urban Drinking Houses in Medieval England,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 51:2 (2025): 133-153. 

Phil Withington, “Intoxicants and the Invention of ‘Consumption,’” Economic History Review 73:2 (2020):384-408
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Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
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