Gabrielle Robilliard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4439382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabrielle Robilliard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabrielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Robilliard |
| SIGNATURE | ROBILLIARD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0693-646X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Virtuous Drugs: Coffee and Tea in Medical Theory and Practice in Halle Pietism, 1698–1720
How did medical consumption contribute to the diffusion of tea and coffee in Europe? How did these ‘luxury’ and exotic substances acquire medical associations? Historical accounts frequently note medically inspired popularisation, but rarely venture beyond medical discourse as historical evidence. This article explores the integration of these two substances into discourses and practices of health and spiritual well-being in German Halle Pietism,…
Plague and intoxicants in the Baltic and North Seas during the long seventeenth century
The article argues that medical responses to plague were a cause of the ‘psychoactive revolution’ during the long seventeenth century. Focusing on four metropoles in the Baltic and North Sea region, it shows that the commodification of sugar, opiates and tobacco during the last century of the Second Great Pandemic correlates both with outbreaks of plague in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London and Stockholm and with the intra-regional prescription of these…
The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg
The Prize Papers: Tracing Slavery and the Slave Trade in a “Hidden” Archive of State
This article provides an overview and provenance of sources uncovered to-date relating to slavery, especially in the Indian Ocean region, contained the Prize Papers Collection at The National Archives, London. The Prize Papers consist of papers and objects confiscated by the British/English from captured ships as well as legal records from the ensuing court cases at the High Court of Admiralty in London. Presently only partially catalogued, the P…
Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: Making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg
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 …
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Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: Making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg
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 …
Virtuous Drugs: Coffee and Tea in Medical Theory and Practice in Halle Pietism, 1698–1720
How did medical consumption contribute to the diffusion of tea and coffee in Europe? How did these ‘luxury’ and exotic substances acquire medical associations? Historical accounts frequently note medically inspired popularisation, but rarely venture beyond medical discourse as historical evidence. This article explores the integration of these two substances into discourses and practices of health and spiritual well-being in German Halle Pietism,…
Plague and intoxicants in the Baltic and North Seas during the long seventeenth century
The article argues that medical responses to plague were a cause of the ‘psychoactive revolution’ during the long seventeenth century. Focusing on four metropoles in the Baltic and North Sea region, it shows that the commodification of sugar, opiates and tobacco during the last century of the Second Great Pandemic correlates both with outbreaks of plague in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London and Stockholm and with the intra-regional prescription of these…
The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg
The Prize Papers: Tracing Slavery and the Slave Trade in a “Hidden” Archive of State
This article provides an overview and provenance of sources uncovered to-date relating to slavery, especially in the Indian Ocean region, contained the Prize Papers Collection at The National Archives, London. The Prize Papers consist of papers and objects confiscated by the British/English from captured ships as well as legal records from the ensuing court cases at the High Court of Admiralty in London. Presently only partially catalogued, the P…
Consumption (sociology (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Apothecary (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works) · Commodification (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Enlightenment (1 works)