Middle English Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500.

Author / Editor
Bower, Hannah.

Title
Middle English Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500.

Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Physical Description
xii, 259 pp.; 8 illus.

Series
Oxford English Monographs.

Description
Explores relations between the practical purposes of medieval medical recipes and their imaginative and aesthetic effects, focusing on how the texts of these recipes reflect their broader discursive culture, c. 1375-1500. Cites Chaucer's recurrent uses (often parodic) of the discourse of recipes (CYT) and of medical terms, metaphors, and similes--uses that help to clarify less well-known texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale