Early Modern English recipes as a mirror of the time period
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Universidad de Alcalá
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ISSN: 2657-3032
Année de publication: 2020
Volumen: 16
Pages: 47-60
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Neophilological Studies = Studia Neofilologiczne
Résumé
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.