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From their emergence in the late Middle Ages, public houses left traces not just in administrative and legal records, but also in a wide spectrum of meta-discourses. Theologians, lawyers and artists all engaged with a variety of aspects long before modern scholarship discovered the topic. The first section takes a closer look at these contemporary debates.
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Kümin, B. (2007). Interpretations. In: Drinking Matters. Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598461_6
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