In England they drank "small beer" which I think is less alcoholic.
But in general they must have been very de-hydrated.
Monica
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Actually there is evidence of the opposite.
Before coffee overtook Europe in 1648, people drank little water (as
unsafe), but mostly beer (beer soup as standard European breakfast). So
all Europeans were slightly inebriated in their waking hours.
Caffeine-induced sober stimulatedness was the revolution that begat
coffeehouse conversation, which in turm begat Kant and Hamann.
RT
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office
Or evidence that anyone performed sober? Perhaps only on special
occasions.
d
How about the proposition that "there was no church in Italy in the
first half of the17th century in which the singers all performed in
the nude?" Well.. who knows? But how likely is it?
Or evidence that anyone performed sober?
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