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dc.contributor.authorBower, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-17T04:01:16Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T04:01:16Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.submitted2022-03-16T10:15:38Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53388
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79400
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicineen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KL c 1000 CE to c 1500en_US
dc.subject.otherrecipes, remedies, medicine, Middle English, poetry, networks, imagination, close reading, play, fragments
dc.titleMiddle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780192849496.001.0001
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oapen.pages272
oapen.place.publicationOxford
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