Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500

ISBN-13: 9780192849496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Universit Churchill College Hannah (Junior Research Fellow

Recenzje

The scope of the study is truly impressive, encompassing over ninety manuscripts and early printed books consulted and a larger number accessed through medical databases. Instead of choosing to focus on a handful of texts, Bower's study aims to consider vernacular medical remedies as a corpus, albeit one intimately connected to other areas of knowledge and linguistic traditions. The book is written in clear and beautiful prose, approachable both to scholar and student.

O autorze

Hannah Bower is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Churchill College, Cambridge and she specializes in medieval literature. Her research focuses on the boundaries, overlaps, and exchanges between literary writings and other, apparently practical or scientific texts. Her PhD, funded by the Wellcome Trust and completed at the University of Oxford, explored the linguistic and imaginative connections between medieval medical recipes and more canonical literary writings. She also completed a six-month secondment fellowship at the London Science Museum which explored the editorial history and reader reception of eighteenth-century medical pamphlets. Her current research investigates the representation of human-made marvels in all kinds of medieval and early modern writings.