Middle English medical recipes and literary play, 1375-1500

This is a detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. It explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to late medieval manuscripts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed,...

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Main Author: Bower, Hannah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022, 2022
Edition:First edition
Series:Oxford English monographs / Oxford English monographs
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This is a detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. It explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to late medieval manuscripts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed, and redefine that purpose
Item Description:This edition also issued in print: 2022. - "is is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso
Physical Description:259 pages illustrations (colour)
ISBN:9780191944611