Social networks and sharing medical recipes: The receipt book of Amy Rowlands...
By Alun Withey Much recent work by historians has highlighted the extent that medical knowledge was part of a ‘knowledge economy’ in the early modern period. Put simply, health and medicine were...
View ArticleWhat is a ‘remedy collection’?: Recording Medical Information in the...
What exactly is a ‘recipe collection’? The most obvious answer is something like the example shown below, a formal ‘receptaria’ book of medical receipts and remedies. In the early modern period, and...
View ArticleOral Testimony and Remedies Over Time
By Alun Withey When studying the history of recipes, the longevity of certain remedies, ingredients or substances in healing is often striking. In terms of the early modern period, it is often remarked...
View ArticleRecipe [book] studies: an editor’s postscript
By Sara Pennell As some of you may already be aware, I and another contributor to this blog, Michelle DiMeo, have finally seen the publication of the volume Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550-1800...
View ArticleThe Curative Power of Beer and Rhubarb
By Dr. Annie Gray and Dr. Alun Withey Annie: I’m a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet, a sort of cook’s question time, where an audience fires questions at a panel of cooking people. I come...
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