Coffee and Orientalism: Exploring the Relationship in the 1700s
Delve into the intriguing history of coffee and its role in shaping the relationship between Europe and the Ottoman Empire around 1700. Learn about the perceived virtues of coffee, the various types in circulation, and the significance of these differences. Images and quotations offer a vivid insight into the culture surrounding coffee in the early modern era.
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Coffee and Orientalism HI3T5 week 7, 2022
Humphrey Broadbent, The Domestick Coffee- Man, Shewing the True Way of Preparing and Making Chocolate, Coffee and Tea (London, 1722)
Turkish miniature showing a coffee-house, mid-sixteenth century
My Lady made us drink our morning draught there [in parlour of his boss at Navy Board] - of several wines. But I drank nothing but some of her Coffee; which was purely made, with a little sugar in it. The Diary of Samuel Pepys [London, 1660s], cited in Phil Withington, "Where Was the Coffee in Early Modern England?", Journal of Modern History 92:1 (2020): 40-75.
A coffee seizure in eighteenth-century Stockholm, painting by M rten Rudolf Heland, 1799-1814
What does coffee tell us about the relationship between Europe and the Ottoman Empire around 1700? What were the 'virtues' of coffee and how were they determined? What were the different types of coffee in circulation, and why did these differences matter?
