EARLY MODERN ENGLISH RECIPES AS A MIRROR OF THE TIME PERIOD
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH RECIPES AS A MIRROR OF THE TIME PERIOD
Author(s): Isabel DE LA CRUZ-CABANILLASSubject(s): Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: Recipe genre; Early Modern English recipes; Early Modern English diseases; Recipes as reflection of the time period; New World commodities; Manuscript recipe collections
Summary/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.
Journal: Prace Naukowe Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie. Studia Neofilologiczne
- Issue Year: XVI/2020
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 47-60
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
