Persuasion in Early Modern English Medical Recipes

Mäkinen, Martti

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“…Medical recipes were in fact "one of the most frequently copied text-types in late medieval England" (Bower, 2022, p. 2). They have received much scholarly interest over the last decades, for instance, Alonso- Almeida (1998Almeida ( -1999, Jones (1998), Carroll (1999, Taavitsainen (2001), Mäkinen (2004), Quintana-Toledo ( 2009), de la Cruz Cabanillas (2017a), Marqués-Aguado and Esteban-Segura (2020), Bower (2022). In the Early Modern English period, the role and function of medical recipes have been deal…”

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“…Medical recipes were in fact "one of the most frequently copied text-types in late medieval England" (Bower, 2022, p. 2). They have received much scholarly interest over the last decades, for instance, Alonso-Almeida (1998-1999, Jones (1998), Carroll (1999Carroll ( , 2004, Taavitsainen (2001), Mäkinen (2004), Quintana-Toledo (2009), de la Cruz Cabanillas (2017a), Marqués-Aguado and Esteban-Segura (2020), Bower (2022). In the Early Modern English period, the role and function of medical recipes have been deal…”

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Narratology in Early Modern medical manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 213

Segura

2023

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It has been argued that narrative elements can be found throughout the history of English scientific writing. Narratives can be linked to specific genres; thus, learned texts for medical doctors were different from those directed to lay audiences (Taavitsainen, 2022). This article sets out to analyse a specific type of medical narrative, that of recipe collections, focusing for the purpose on the text housed in London, Wellcome Library, MS 213. The manuscript dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century (1606, more specifically) and gathers recipes “experienced and tryed by the speciall practize of Mrs Corlyon” (Moorat, 1962-1973).[1] The codex belonged to Alethea Howard (née Talbot), Countess of Arundel. The main aim of the study is to identify and examine narrative forms and functions as well as particular features in the collection of recipes held in MS Wellcome 213, which can contribute to the knowledge of recipes written by and for women during the early modern period. [1] This has been taken from the database description of the Library Catalogue of the Wellcome Collection, available at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/u3w8qbrt (date of access: February 2023).

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“…3 For more on the structure of Middle English recipe see, e.g. : Taavitsainen (2001a, b), Görlach (1992), Stannard (1982), Mäkinen (2004Mäkinen ( , 2006, Carroll (1999Carroll ( , 2004, Jones (1998), Bator-Sylwanowicz (2017), Alonso-Almeida (1998. 4 Werlich (1976: 122-125) proposed the following features that make a recipe an instructive texttype: "the use of commands or requests, first-or second-person point of view, topical coherence, topic-giving instructions, and a text structured either analytically or like a list" (after Carroll 2004: 178).…”

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“…4 Werlich (1976: 122-125) proposed the following features that make a recipe an instructive texttype: "the use of commands or requests, first-or second-person point of view, topical coherence, topic-giving instructions, and a text structured either analytically or like a list" (after Carroll 2004: 178). 5 See the studies by Görlach (1992Görlach ( , 2004, Jones (1998), Keiser (1998), Carroll (1999, 2005, Taavitsainen (2001aTaavitsainen ( , 2001bTaavitsainen ( , 2012, Grund (2003), Mäkinen (2004, 2006), Alonso-Almeida (2008, Marques-Aguado (2014), etc. 6 The number of recipes in remedies and specialised texts is not proportional.…”

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Medieval medical writings and their readers: communication of knowledge in Middle English medical recipes

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2023

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In late medieval England learned medicine leapt the walls of universities and became available to people with no formal medical training (cf. also Jones 1999, Jones 2004. This widespread interest in medicine was partly triggered by the vernacularisation of medical writings. This process involved, among other things, (1) gradual evolution of conventions and norms for, e.g. recipe writing (cf. Carroll 2004) and/or (2) employment of various strategies to adapt the texts to the new audience. The study will attempt to explain what strategies were employed to adapt medical texts, in particular recipes, to the intended audience, i.e., "who speaks [writes] what language to whom and when" (Fishman 1979: 15). For instance, some recipes contain foreign (mostly French and Latin) or sophisticated terminology whereas other recipe collections make use of vernacular resources. This implies that the language of medieval recipes might be the indicator of a social distinction between the readers. The data for the paper come from the Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT), a computerised collection of medical treatises written between 1330 and 1500.

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Persuasion in Early Modern English Medical Recipes

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Medieval medical writings and their readers: communication of knowledge in Middle English medical recipes

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