Brockman [née Bunce], Ann, Lady Brockman (d. 1660), writer on medicine

Aughterson, Kate

doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68030

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004

DOI: 10.1093/ref:odnb/68030

|View full text |Cite

Brockman [née Bunce], Ann, Lady Brockman (d. 1660), writer on medicine

Kate Aughterson¹

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2013

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…1r) and a recipe collection associated with Anne Bunce Brockman (d. 1660) dated to 1638 (Additional MS 45197). For additional information on Anne Bunce Brockman, see Aughterson ().…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household

Leong

2013

Centaurus

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

When Mary Cholmeley married Henry Fairfax in 1627, she carried to her new home in Yorkshire a leather-bound notebook filled with medical recipes. Over the next few decades, Mary and Henry, their children and various members of the Fairfax and Cholmeley families continually entered new medical and culinary information into this ‘treasury for health.’ Consequently, as it stands now, the manuscript can be read both as a repository of household medical knowledge and as a family archive. Focusing on two Fairfax ‘family books,’ this essay traces on the process through which early modern recipe books were created. In particular, it explores the role of the family collective in compiling books of knowledge. In contrast to past studies where household recipe books have largely been described as the products of exclusively female endeavors, I argue that the majority of early modern recipe collections were created by family collectives and that the members of these collectives worked in collaboration across spatial, geographical and temporal boundaries. This new reading of recipe books as testaments of the interests and needs of particular families encourages renewed examination of the role played by gender in the transmission and production of knowledge in early modern households.

show abstract

“…1r) and a recipe collection associated with Anne Bunce Brockman (d. 1660) dated to 1638 (Additional MS 45197). For additional information on Anne Bunce Brockman, see Aughterson ().…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household

Leong

2013

Centaurus

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

hi@scite.ai

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

Brockman [née Bunce], Ann, Lady Brockman (d. 1660), writer on medicine

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household

Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About