| Description |
1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations (colour) |
| Series |
Oxford English monographs |
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Oxford English monographs.
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| Summary |
"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 |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2022 |
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"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 20, 2023) |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Medicine, Medieval, in literature.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800
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English literature -- Middle English
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Medicine
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Medicine, Medieval, in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191944611 |
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0191944610 |
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