A Leechbook Or Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century
Author: Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 360
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Author: Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Warren R. Dawson
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781258830168
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Author: Warren Royal Dawson
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 344
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781258943035
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Author: Warren Royal Dawson
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Published: 1934
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ISBN-13: 9780907092025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Medical Society of London
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 343
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hannah Bower
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-03-21
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0192666126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 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.