Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns were superior to pubs and alehouses. They sometimes functioned as settings for novels, facilitating encounters between individuals belonging to … from the sale of food and drink to being a forum for local politics. The inn, much older than the comparatively young coffee-house , was one of several types of eating and drinking venue. Chaucer's medieval Tabard, offering food and … part of the emerging Habermasian public sphere and essential to communication in urban and rural communities. 7 Like coffee-houses , they facilitated encounters between individuals and groups from different social strata, professions and …
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