Middle English medical recipes and literary play, 1375-1500 Bower, Hannah 1993- creator author. Oxford University Press text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc. enk 2022 2022 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations (colour). "This volume is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. Analysing recipe collections in over seventy late medieval manuscripts, this book explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to those texts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed, and redefine that purpose. The study therefore presents a challenge to recipes' traditional reputation as mundane, unartful texts written and read solely for the sake of directing practical action. Crucially, it also relocates these neglected texts and overlooked manuscripts within the complex networks forming medieval textual culture, demonstrating that--though marginalized in modern scholarship--medical recipes were actually linguistically, formally, materially, and imaginatively interconnected with many other late medieval discourses, including devotional writings, romances, fabliaux, and Chaucerian poetry. The monograph thus models for readers modes of analysis and close reading that might be deployed in relation to recipes in order to understand better their allusive, fragmentary, and playful qualities as well as their wide-ranging influence on medieval imaginations"--Publisher's description. Specialized. specialized Hannah Bower. This edition also issued in print: 2022. "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism Medicine, Medieval, in literature Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions Early works to 1800 Littérature anglaise 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) Histoire et critique English literature Middle English Medicine Medicine, Medieval, in literature 1100-1500 fast PR275.M4 B69 2022 820.935610902 Middle English medical recipes and literary play, 1375-1500 Bower, Hannah, 1993- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 First edition. (DLC) 2021953107 (OCoLC)1273675788 Oxford English monographs 9780191944611 0191944610 9780192849496 https://academic.oup.com/book/41401 STBDS 220209 20240201202355.0 in00004770064 eng