'World of the Tavern' - Programme, Themes & Dates

This advanced option is structured in three parts:

I. Approaches II. Themes III. Relations

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Part I: APPROACHES

 

[week 1] Year 3 options start in week 2

 

[week 2] Module framework and introduction 

[week 3] Historiography

 

[week 4] Early modern voices

 

Part II: THEMES

 

[week 5] Catering

[week 6 = Reading Week]

 

[week 7] Group presentation on Regulation, introduced by [speakers to be allocated]

Guidance meeting for dissertations by agreement

 

'Innkeeper', miniature from a manuscript of De ludo scacchorum by Jacobus de Cessolis (1458),
taken from the facsimile edition of Vatican Library, MS Cod. Pal. Lat. 961,
published by Belser Verlag, Zurich 1988, f. 46r.

Book ReviewLink opens in a new window: please upload max. 1,500 words formatted in line with UG handbook styleguideLink opens in a new window (i.e. using footnotes and a supporting bibliography) by the deadline specified on Tabula.
 

[week 8] Group presentation on publicans, introduced by [speakers to be allocated]

 

[week 9] Group presentation on economic & socio-cultural services, introduced by [speakers to be allocated]

 

[week 10] Group presentation on gender roles, introduced by [speakers to be allocated]

NB: Titles and materials for public house projects & dissertations to be finalized with module tutor by the end of the autumn term.

 

Spring Term

 

[week 11] Crime: Publicans & Patrons

 

Dissertation writers: please send electronic copy of (i) a 1-page outline of topic, research questions, planned content/structure and (ii) a bibliography of key primary/secondary resources, by noon on Friday of week 11

 

[week 12]  Sex and the Early Modern Public House

Please remember to work on your public house projects / dissertations alongside regular weekly tasks.

 

[week 13] Long-term-changes (medieval/early modern)

 

[week 14] Long-term-changes (early modern/modern)

 

[week 15] Module Conference: class presentations on public house projects & essays

 

[week 16 = Reading Week]

 

Part III. RELATIONS

 

[week 17] Church and tavern

 

Public house projects due on Tabula by the departmental deadline specified on Tabula]

 

[week 18] Spaces - no regular class but Field Trip to historic public houses in the region [exact date to be announced, likely to be on the Saturday]
 

 
[week 19] Tavern and local authorities

  

 

[week 20] Interdisciplinary approaches

  

 

Summer Term

 

[week 21] Conclusion

 

[week 22]  Revision session by agreement

 

Dissertations due on Tabula by the departmental deadline specified on Tabula

 

[week 23]  

 

Seminar contribution self-reflection due by the deadline specified on Tabula.

2-question / 2-hour take home exam as scheduled by the department

 

 

Inn sign of the former Golden Falcon in Bern. Photo: BK.