Drinking in Gaul: Mead, Beer, and Wine by Fanette Laubenheimer

Name: Drinking in Gaul: Mead, Beer, and Wine by Fanette Laubenheimer
Brand: CNRS Éditions
SKU: 9782271134356
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What did people drink in Gaul? Between mead, beer, and wine, the Gauls had rich and varied consumption practices, mixing rituals, trade, and conviviality. In Drinking in Gaul, archaeologist Fanette Laubenheimer explores the evolution of these drinks through ancient texts and archaeological remains, offering a new perspective on the cultural and viticultural history of our ancestors.

Author: Fanette Laubenheimer
Language: French 🇫🇷

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Drinking in Gaul: Mead, Beer, and Wine of Fanette Laubenheimer offers a fascinating dive into the world of beverages consumed by our ancestors. While ancient authors readily described the Gauls as heavy drinkers of wine, it was long imported before being produced locally and then exported throughout the Empire. But before wine, people mainly consumedMead and the beer, considered the true national beverage.

The book examines the evolution of these beverages:

How did they develop in Gaul ?
What were the Consumption habits Daily and the rituals Associates ?
Who drank what, in what context, and for what reasons ?

To answer these questions, Fanette Laubenheimer, archaeologist and emeritus research director at the CNRS, mobilizes both the ancient texts, the archaeological excavations conducted in Gaul and beyond, as well as the results of the most innovative scientific research, including chemical analyses that allow for the identification of beverage traces in ancient containers.

This richly documented book provides a better understanding of:

The place of alcoholic beverages in ancient societies.
The role of wine in economic and cultural exchanges.
The social and symbolic importance of the beer and of theMead in Gaulish traditions.

Author's biography

Fanette Laubenheimer is a renowned archaeologist and emeritus research director at the CNRS. A specialist in the economy and society of Gallo-Roman times, she led the team "Archaeology of Gaul, Economic and Social Structures" as well as the research group "Goods in Roman Gaul, Production, Consumption, Exchanges".
She is also behind the Amphoralis Museum from Sallèles-d’Aude, built on the site of a Gallo-Roman pottery workshop that she excavated for more than twenty years.