Recipes and book culture in England, 1350-1600 /
Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. Medieval and early modern recipes can be short and simple but sometimes are not, sometimes they work, and sometimes they do not. They can also be remarkab...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Exeter studies in medieval Europe.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Ways of reading recipes / Carrie Griffin & Hannah Ryley
- 'As the coke and the phisicion wyll agre & deuyse': language cues and potential users of Medieval English medical and culinary recipes / Francisco Alonso-Almeida
- Astrological questions as recipes for knowledge / Mari-Liisa Varila
- Feasts, menus and provisioning in the fifteenth-century: evidence from the Porter Manuscript, Yale Center for British Art, SK25 .T85 1450 / Julia Boffey
- John Shirley's recipes and fifteenth-century celebrity endorsement / Margaret Connolly
- The brickmaker, the tavern keeper, and the knight: the role of obscurity and imagination in Medieval medical recipes / Hannah Bower
- The luminescence of Medieval media / Tom White
- Late Medieval book-craft recipes and perceptions of the material text / Eleanor Baker
- Domestic wonder and the medieval home / Chelsea Silva
- Practical knowledge and medical recipes in sixteenth-century English travel writing / Natalya Din-Kariuki
- Bodies in the recipe collection: interacting with manuscript charms in late Medieval England / Katherine Storm Hindley
- Latin recipes in medical practitioner handbooks / Peter Murray Jones
- 'Et melles en semble;: literariness and a trilingual recipe collection from late Medieval England / John Colley.