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Of Wine, Jews, and Provence

In: Wine, Society, and Globalization

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  • Patric Choffrut

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“There was something in this landscape, smiling although wild, that explained to me the spirit of the Southern Covenanters… They dealt much more in blood, both given and taken; yet I find no obsession of the Evil One in their records. With a light conscience, they pursued their life in these rough times and circumstances.”1 In Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, Robert Louis Stevenson— better known as author of Treasure Island and Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde—provides his readers with remarkable insights into the inner soul of a Presbyterian Scot visiting the last stronghold of another Protestant breed, the Huguenots of Languedoc. Both groups indeed fought, and died, for the same God—but the Southern Covenanters had a different Weltanschauung (“world-view”), possibly because they lived in a different setting, possibly because the sun is hotter there, the mountains produce chestnuts, and the valleys wine. Wine is part of the Mediterranean heritage, as is reflected in the languages of the region: “wine,” in Hebrew, is yain (‴); in Greek, oinos (oινoς); and in Latin, vinum—pronounced “winum.”

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  • Patric Choffrut, 2007. "Of Wine, Jews, and Provence," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gwyn Campbell & Nathalie Guibert (ed.), Wine, Society, and Globalization, chapter 0, pages 139-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-60990-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230609907_8
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