'Alehouse and the alternative society' in D Pennington & K Thomas (eds), Puritans and Revolutionaries. Essays in seventeenth century history presented to Christopher Hill
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- Author(s) Clark, Peter
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1978
- Pages pp47-72
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Explores the contemporary reputation of the alehouse in the 16th and 17th centuries as a place of danger to established society - 'the alehouse was perceived as the command post of men who sought to turn the traditional world upside down and create their own alternative society'