Historian to Discuss Renaissance Beer Industry April 1
Medieval historian Richard W. Unger will deliver this year’s Rembert W. Patrick Lecture at Guilford College, speaking on the topic “The Business of Beer in the Renaissance” on Wednesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the college’s Community Center.
Unger, a professor of history at the University of British Columbia, has written several books on the role of technology in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period, including several on the history of brewing, shipping and oceanic history. He recently served as advisory editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (2008).
The lecture was established in memory of Patrick, a 1930 Guilford graduate who taught Florida history and Reconstruction history for many years at the University of Florida andlater served as a research professor at the University of Georgia. In 1961, Patrick was president of the Southern Historical Association. His wife Eleanor Patrick, a 1932 Guilford graduate, established the lecture series in his memory in 1970. Past lecturers have included John Hope Franklin, Douglas Helms and Diskin Clay.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of History at 316-2471.
March 16, 2009