UPDATE: [Renaissance] Drink and Drinking (GEMCS 2008; Deadline extended 5/23)
Inviting papers on drink and drinking culture in sixteenth and seventeenth
century literature for GEMCS 2008. Topics may include drunkenness and
social disorder; drinking and social status; brewers and brewsters; water,
beer, ale, wine, or spirits; church-ales and other festivities; social
histories of brewing and drinking; economics of drink; alcohol and health;
temperance. Papers emphasizing social histories are encouraged Abstracts
of 250 words should be sent to David Swain (d.swain at snhu.edu) by 23 May
2008.