Early Modern English recipes as a mirror of the time period

  1. Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

Revista:
Neophilological Studies = Studia Neofilologiczne

ISSN: 2657-3032

Año de publicación: 2020

Volumen: 16

Páginas: 47-60

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.16926/SN.2020.16.03 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Neophilological Studies = Studia Neofilologiczne

Resumen

This article explores several Early Modern English recipe compilations extant in medical manuscripts through a purposely-built corpus in order to investigate the recipe genre as a mirror of that time period. Probably no other genre is so permeable to the changes in the cultural and social spheres, given that recipes are reflection of the contemporary society where they are written. This fact is especially noticeable in the abundance of remedies for some ailments of particular concern in the early modern period. Diseases were mainly treated with plants known from Antiquity, but Early Modern English recipes also incorporated new substances from the Continent and, specially, from America.