Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

Contents

I.	Hospitality and its Tokens	1
II.	Ancient Tavern Signs	23
III.	Ecclesiastical Hospitality and its Signs	47
IV.	Secular Hospitality: Knightly and Popular Signs	75
V.	Traveling with Shakespeare and Montaigne	101
VI.	Tavern Signs in Art—especially in Pictures by the Dutch Masters	127
VII.	Artists as Sign-Painters	141
VIII.	The Sign in Poetry	167
IX.	Political Signs	187
X.	Traveling with Goethe and Frederick the Great	217
XI.	The English Sign and its Peculiarities	235
XII.	The Enemies of the Sign and its End	259
	Envoy: And the Moral?	277
	Bibliography	291
	Index	297

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