The next issue of the AVSITA Forum Journal should be mailing this week or next, so check your mailboxes soon. It is a special topic issue on Medieval Brewing. For the table of contents, see below, and for ordering individual copies, click here.
A Special Topic Issue:
Medieval Brewing
Contents
“Introduction: An Epistemology of Medieval Brewing: Evidence, inference, and the educated guess,” by Stephen C. Law, pp. 3-17
“Exploring the St. Paul’s Domesday Ale Recipe: Medieval brewing praxis and modern recreation,’ by Henry Davis and Steven A. Walton, pp. 18-33 (includes “A Modern Domesday Ale,” by Henry Davis)
“The Alewife: Changing images and bad brews,” by Theresa A. Vaughan, pp. 34-41
“The Role of Drinking Horns in Medieval England,” by Morgan Dickson, pp. 42-47
“Gruit and the Preservation of Beer in the Middle Ages,” by Richard W. Unger, pp. 48-54
“Monastic Asceticism and the Rationalization of Beer Making in the Middle Ages,” by Michael A. Elliott, p. 55-61
“Ale Production and Consumption in Late Medieval England, c.1250–1530: Evidence from manorial estates,” by Philip Slavin, pp. 62-72
“Beer: Necessity or luxury?” by Max Nelson, p.. 73-85