Overview
This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to survive from, the pre-modern era (c.1550-1800). This is the first book to collect together the wide variety of scholarly approaches to pre-modern recipe books written in English, drawing on varying approaches to reveal their culinary, medical, scientific, linguistic, religious and material meanings. Ten scholars from the fields of culinary history, history of medicine and science, divinity, archaeology and material culture, and English literature and linguistics contribute to a vibrant mapping of the aspirations invested in, and uses of, recipes and recipe books. By exploring areas as various as the knowledge economies of medicine, Anglican feasting and fasting practices, the material culture of the kitchen and table, London publishing and concepts of authorship and the aesthetics of culinary styles, these eleven essays (including a critical introduction to recipe books and their historiography) position recipe texts in the wider culture of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They illuminate their importance to both their original compilers and users, and modern scholars and graduate students alike. -- .
Full Product Details
Author: Michelle DiMeo ,
Sara Pennell ,
Rebecca Mortimer ,
Sara Pennell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.517kg
ISBN: 9780719087271
ISBN 10: 0719087279
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 31 January 2013
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Recipe books, as Michelle DiMeo and Sara Pennell's collection of essays show, can be read for their play with generic conventions as an important avenue into women's literacy, and as evidence of communities far beyond the domestic. -- .
Recipe books, as Michelle DiMeo and Sara Pennell's collection of essays show, can be read for their play with generic conventions as an important avenue into women's literacy, and as evidence of communities far beyond the domestic. -- Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
Sara Pennell is Senior Lecturer in early modern British history at the University of Roehampton, London Michelle DiMeo is S. Gordon Castigliano Director of Digital Library Initiatives in the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
