Tracts of action : material, visual, and practical dimensions of early modern how-to books /
"This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What ingredients do I need for a effective remedy? How can one find and mine mineral resources, how does one make pewter cups or a good meal? Practical information of this kin...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2024]
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| Series: | Library of the written word ;
127. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 104. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. How-to Books-the Birth and Development of an Understudied Genre / Stefan Laube
- Can There Ever Be Clueless Advice Books? : Remarks on Plague Tracts / Stefan Laube
- Part 1. Materiality and Traces of Use
- 'Take', 'Do', 'Check' : Readers and Uses of Early Modern How-to Books in the Collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek / Petra Feuerstein-Herz
- Who Owned the Margarita Philosophica and How Was It Read? : A Survey of the Sixteenth-Century Copies in the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections / Robert MacLean
- Part 2. Entanglements of Jotted, Printed and Digital Steps
- Text, Medium, Recording System : Recipes in Books / Sven Limbeck
- A Commerce of Secrets : Digital and Performative Approaches to an Early Modern How-to Manuscript at the Making and Knowing Project / Tillmann Taape
- Compilation Networks : Making Early Modern Books of Secrets / Simone Zweifel
- Part 3. Text and Image Simultaneity
- How to Fly? : Some Thoughts on a Windy Skill / Laurence Grove and Stefan Laube
- Playing with Recipe Conventions in Den sack der consten / Andrea van Leerdam
- Part 4. Prescription and Improvisation
- 'That's How You Do It!' or Better not? : Early Modern Recipes and Their Readers / Laura Balbiani
- Smelling Good While Conjuring the Spirits : Use of 'Perfumes' in Medieval and Early Modern Magic Books / Sergei Zotov
- The Duchess's Medicine Chest : Prescriptions and Medicines for Sophia of Brunswick-L|neburg (1522-1575) / Britta-Juliane Kruse.