Middle English Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500.
- Author / Editor
- Bower, Hannah.
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