{"id":24307,"date":"2024-07-02T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=24307"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:04","slug":"rod-phillipss-new-book-is-on-wine-in-eighteenth-century-burgundy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2024\/rod-phillipss-new-book-is-on-wine-in-eighteenth-century-burgundy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Phillips\u2019s new book is on wine in eighteenth-century Burgundy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Rod Phillips\u2019s new book is on wine in eighteenth-century Burgundy\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Professor Rod Phillips<\/a>\u2019s latest book, Un cur\u00e9 dans les vignes <\/em>(A Priest among the Vines<\/em>), <\/em>has just been published in France by \u00c9ditions Universitaires de Dijon.  It is co-authored by Jean Bart, an old friend of Rod \u2013 they met in Paris in 1989, at a conference for the bicentennial of the French Revolution \u2013 who is professor emeritus of the history of law at the University of Dijon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un cur\u00e9 dans les vignes <\/em>is based on the records of Fran\u00e7ois Delach\u00e8re, who was the priest in Volnay, a small Burgundy village now famous for its red wines, from 1726 to 1781.  For more than half a century, Delach\u00e8re kept detailed annual records on the weather, the vines belonging to his parish, the quality and size of the grape harvest, the types of wine produced, and the prices the wines fetched. (The priest kept the revenue from selling the wine to augment his salary.) Delach\u00e8re editorialized generously, and he recorded his dealings with his employees (sometimes dishonest), his family (frequently dishonest), and wine merchants (generally dishonest).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rod came across Delach\u00e8re\u2019s records, kept in two registers, while he was researching the history of wine in an archive in Dijon. As far as he knows, there are no other records like them, in that they give us ground-level, granular information on viticulture, wine production, and the wine trade over a long period during the 1700s.  He and Jean Bart discussed the records during many lunches together in Dijon, and several years ago they agreed to prepare a transcription of the main register. They co-wrote a long introduction that discusses Delach\u00e8re himself and what the records tell us about wine in Burgundy, already a prestigious wine region in the 1700s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delach\u00e8re\u2019s records also provide background to one of Rod\u2019s current projects, a study of the impact of the French Revolution on wine production and wine culture in France (supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information on the book is here: https:\/\/eud.u-bourgogne.fr\/histoire\/852-un-cure-dans-les-vignes-9782364414518.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Rod Phillips\u2019s latest book, Un cur\u00e9 dans les vignes (A Priest among the Vines), has just been published in France by \u00c9ditions Universitaires de Dijon.  It is co-authored by Jean Bart, an old friend of Rod \u2013 they met in Paris in 1989, at a conference for the bicentennial of the French Revolution \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"student-female2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24310,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24307\/revisions\/24310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}