aralqprf, 9 months ago

@RustyBertrand The Smithsonian found issues with this explanation. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-used-dominate-beer-industry-until-witch-accusations-started-pouring-180977171/

galoisghost, 9 months ago

@aralqprf thanks for posting that link. Possible, certainly plausible but debated. I wish the Smithsonian had actually included or linked to the dissenting views. @RustyBertrand

christinkallama, 9 months ago

@galoisghost @aralqprf @RustyBertrand

In this case, dissenting views=more thoroughly researched and better-supported views. The classic and still go-to study of women's brewing and its decline is Judith Bennett's Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600.

And I don't even know where to begin with "the Reformation introduced the idea that witchcraft was bad" pronouncement.

#histodons
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galoisghost, 9 months ago

@christinkallama @aralqprf @RustyBertrand @histodons I was more wondering what those views were. This seems to explain them: https://www.intoxicatingspaces.org/2021/03/18/trouble-brewing-ale-beer-and-witchcraft/ (veracity pending)