Robilliard, Gabrielle (2024) Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg. Urban History, 51 (1). pp. 146-170. ISSN 0963-9268, 1469-8706
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Abstract
This article examines the nature of sociability, communication and the ‘practical public sphere’ of Hamburg's early coffeehouses (1677–1714) and provides insight into the ‘social life’ of these coffeehouse spaces during the ‘early’ Enlightenment. Using licensing records, administrative sources and supplications, it shows how novelty, popularity, political partisanship and fashionability were characteristic of these early coffeehouses, creating a fluid and capricious dynamic of custom and communication that stressed established notions of honourable sociabilities and communication in urban public spaces. It argues that these destabilizing social and communication practices led to social stratification and a redefinition of ‘honourable’ burgherly behaviour in the normative public sphere. Strategies to govern the coffeehouses sought thus to bind these spaces and their actors to this newly articulated ‘normative’ burgherly public sphere.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Open Access |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | history of coffee and tea, sociability, urban space, media history |
| Subjects: | History > History of Europe History > History of Germany |
| Divisions: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences > Institute of History |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2026 10:22 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2026 10:22 |
| URI: | https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/id/eprint/5550 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-56316 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0963926822000311 |
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