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This largely descriptive chapter introduces the reader to the specific features and functions of each type of hostelry and provides a broad-brush picture of their historical development, activities, ways they influenced each other, and importance in their role in out-of-home consumption of food, drink, and sociality.
2 lis 2016 · An outline history of alehouses, inns, taverns, public houses and hotels in the British Isles, with bibliography and guide to primary sources.
Taverns and alehouses provided food and drink to their guests, whilst inns offered accommodation for weary travellers. These could include merchants, court officials or pilgrims travelling to and from religious shrines, as immortalised by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales.
Tavern, an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises. Tavern keeping has paralleled the growth of trade, travel, and industry throughout history and virtually worldwide. Learn about the function and history of taverns with this article.
5 mar 2019 · Both the inn, which provided lodging, food and drink to weary travellers, and the tavern, which mostly served the middle classes with wine, emerged from around the 12th century, while houses that welcomed guests to sample the host’s home-made ale appeared from the 14th century.
Distinct from alehouses (though sharing some characteristics with taverns), inns were built at the side of busy roads and not only provided food and drink, but also accommodation and stabling for horses and later stagecoaches.
Tabernae were built to serve food and wine to travellers. These tabernae evolved into alehouses, inns and taverns with the inn or coaching inn coming to prominence at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
