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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England - Couverture souple

Leong, Elaine

 
9780226583662: Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 022658366X ISBN 13 : 9780226583662
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2018

Synopsis

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming “treasuries for health,” each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities.

In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elaine Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or “household science”. She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elaine Leong is a Minerva Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022658366X
ISBN 13 
9780226583662
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
294
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