Early Modern English recipes as a mirror of the time period

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Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de laUniversity of Alcalá Author
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/58536
DOI: 10.16926/sn.2020.16.03
ISSN: 2083-5485
Date
2020-01-02
Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Filología Moderna
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Neophilological Studies, 2020, v. 20, n. 16, p. 47-60
Keywords
Recipe genre
Early Modern English recipes
Early Modern English diseases
Recipes as reflection of the time period
New World commodities
Manuscript recipe collections
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Abstract
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
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