Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of Elizabeth Talbot Grey and Aletheia Talbot Howard: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Three, Volume 3 / Edition 1

by Elizabeth Spiller

Overview

Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work, physical health and sustenance and they are at the heart of material culture as it was experienced by early modern Englishwomen. In a world in which daily sustenance and physical health were primarily women's responsibilities, women were central to these texts that record what was both a traditional art and new science. The texts reprinted in these two volumes allow readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, and situate that history within the larger scientific and intellectual practices of the period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754651963
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2008
Series:	The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Three
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	4.81(w) x 7.31(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Spiller, is based in the Department of English, at Florida State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory note; Elizabeth Talbot Grey, Countess of Kent (probable author): A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery: collected and practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased (1653). Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel (probable author): Natura Extenterata, or Nature Unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her. Wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man (1655).