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Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. Medieval and early modern recipes can be short and simple but sometimes are not – sometimes they work, and sometimes they do not. They can also be remarkably performative, imaginative, and playful. These essays explore recipes 1350-1600 from a range of perspectives and are unified by an interest in the complexity and richness of these texts.

This volume is the first of its kind. It presents new critical perspectives on medieval and early modern recipes, moving beyond concerns with utility to reframe recipes as part of a dynamic textual and intellectual culture. Contributors build on the sustained scholarly interest in recipes and bring fresh approaches to them. The thirteen essays explore topics including medical, culinary and domestic recipes and charms, as well as how they relate more generally to, for instance, book history, art, astrology and social practices.

Collectively, the essays reveal a distinctive book culture by exploring the material forms, literary and scribal practices of recipe books. This book is a significant contribution to these areas of study, increasingly central to scholarship in recent years.

Open Access versions of the following chapters will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website: Hannah Bower, The Brickmaker, the Tavern Keeper, and the Knight: The Role of Obscurity and Imagination in Medieval Medical Recipes and Katherine Storm Hindley, Bodies in the Recipe Collection: Interacting with Manuscript Charms in Late Medieval England.

Carrie Griffin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Hannah Ryley is Lecturer in Medieval English at Balliol College, Oxford. She is also Co-Executive Officer of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.

Table des matières :

Introduction: Ways of Reading Recipes. Carrie Griffin & Hannah Ryley

“As the coke and the phisicion wyll agre & deuyse”: Language Cues and Potential Users of Medieval English Medical and Culinary Recipes. Francisco Alonso-Almeida

Astrological Questions as Recipes for Knowledge. Mari-Liisa Varila

Feasts, Menus and Provisioning in the Fifteenth-century: Evidence from the Porter Manuscript, Yale Center for British Art SK25 .T85 1450. Julia Boffey

John Shirley’s Recipes and Fifteenth-Century Celebrity Endorsement. Margaret Connolly

The Brickmaker, the Tavern Keeper, and the Knight: The Role of Obscurity and Imagination in Medieval Medical Recipes. Hannah Bower

The Luminescence of Medieval Media. Tom White

Late Medieval Book-Craft Recipes and Perceptions of the Material Text. Eleanor Baker

Domestic Wonder and the Medieval Home. Chelsea Silva

Practical Knowledge and Medical Recipes in Sixteenth-century English Travel Writing. Natalya Din-Kariuki

Bodies in the Recipe Collection: Interacting with Manuscript Charms in Late Medieval England. Katherine Storm Hindley

Latin Recipes in Medical Practitioner Handbooks. Peter Murray Jones

“Et melles en semble”: Literariness and a Trilingual Recipe Collection from Late Medieval England. John Colley

informations pratiques :

Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350–1600, éd. Carrie Griffin Hannah Ryley, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024 ; 1 vol., 288 p. (Exeter Studies in Medieval EuropeMedieval Studies). ISBN : 978-1-80207-463-5. Prix : GBP 98,00.

Source : Liverpool University Press

Ouvrons les yeux. Cessons d’opposer picturalement le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance. Apprenons à voir, précisément, comment l’oeil qui gouverne le premier commande la seconde car il ne cesse de quêter l’invisible.

S’emparant des deux peintres majeurs que furent Piero della Francesca et Vittore Carpaccio, Éric Palazzo montre, pièces en main, combien ces artistes novateurs se voulurent d’abord des légataires. Leur génie consista à tisser dans leurs oeuvres les objets ou sujets théologiques et liturgiques dont ils héritaient avec les innovations sur la perspective, la géométrie et la lumière qu’ils promouvaient.
Que nous dévoilent La Vision de saint Augustin de Carpaccio, La Flagellation du Christ, La Résurrection et La Vierge à l’Enfant de Piero della Francesca ? De la vision mystique du divin à la perception figurative de l’humain, l’autoportrait marque l’avènement d’une modernité qui ne se veut pas rupture mais continuité.

Une immersion inédite, pédagogique et jubilatoire dans l’histoire de l’art.

Professeur d’histoire de l’art du Moyen Âge à l’université de Poitiers, invité à enseigner dans diverses universités à l’étranger, membre du Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale, de l’Institut universitaire de France et de plusieurs institutions internationales de recherche, Éric Palazzo est l’auteur d’une oeuvre majeure, dont L’invention chrétienne des cinq sens dans la liturgie et l’art au Moyen Âge, Le Souffle de Dieu et Broder la splendeur, parus au Cerf.

Informations pratiques :

Éric Palazzo, De l’autel à la peinture, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2024 ; 1 vol., 272 p. ISBN : 9782204155069. Prix : € 36,00.

Source : Les Éditions du Cerf

Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman.

The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.

Glenn Peers is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at both Syracuse University and the University of Texas at Austin. Among his eight books are, as author, Animism, Materiality, and Museums and Sacred Shock, and, as editor, Byzantine Things in the World. He lives in Bennington, Vermont.

Informations pratiques :

Glenn Peers, Byzantine Media Subjects, Ithaca (NY), Cornell University Press, 2024 ; 1 vol., 320 p. ISBN : 978-1-50177-626-7. Prix : 32,95.

Source : Cornell University Press

Le Livre des Problemes de Aristote est une traduction réalisée vers 1380 par Évrart de Conty, médecin du roi Charles V et maître régent à la Faculté de médecine de Paris. Le texte est basé sur la traduction latine des Problemata physica pseudo-aristotéliciens par Barthélemy de Messine, datant de 1260, et son commentaire, intitulé Expositio Problematum, par le médecin padouan Pietro d’Abano. Ce volume édite la première des trente-huit parties (particulae) du traité, consacrée aux problèmes de médecine. La traduction d’Évrart de Conty est conservée dans huit manuscrits complets et quelques fragments, mais la présente édition est basée sur le manuscrit Paris, BnF, fr. 24281-24282 : celui-ci est en effet un autographe, particulièrement instructif du point de vue de la genèse du travail de traduction, montrant le traducteur au travail avec ses hésitations, ses corrections, ses mises au point.

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Informations pratiques :

Évrart de Conty, Livre des problèmes de Aristote. Édition de la partie I d’après le manuscrit autographe, éd. Françoise Guichard-Tesson, Michèle Goyens, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2024 ; 1 vol., 776 p. (Classiques français du Moyen Âge, 205). ISBN : 978-2-74536-167-7. Prix : € 55,00.

Source : Honoré Champion

In the ninth century, at the beginning of this account, Iceland was uninhabited save for fowl and smaller Arctic animals. In the middle of the sixteenth century, by the end of this history, it had embarked on a course that led to the creation of a small country on the periphery of Europe. The history of medieval Iceland is to some degree a microcosm of European history, but in other respects it has a trajectory of its own. As in medieval Europe, the evolution of the Church, episodic warfare, and the strengthening of the bonds of government played an important role.

Unlike the rest of Europe, however, Iceland was not settled by humans until the Middle Ages and it was without towns and any type of executive government until the late medieval period. Medieval Iceland is a review of Icelandic history from the settlement until the advent of the Reformation, with an emphasis on social and political change, but also on cultural developments, such as the creation of a particular kind of literature, known throughout the world as the sagas.

A view of medieval Icelandic history as it has never been told before from one of its leading historians, this book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in Icelandic and medieval history.

Sverrir Jakobsson is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Iceland. He is the author and editor of numerous works, including Historical Dictionary of Iceland, 3rd edition (2016) and The Varangians: In God´s Holy Fire (2020), The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (2017), Sturla Þórðarson. Skald, Chieftain and Lawman (2017) and The Making of the Eastern Vikings. Rus’ and Varangians in the Middle Ages (2024).

Table des matières :

Introduction: Long-term economic and social trends

Part 1. Early Medieval Iceland

1.     Land-taking

2.     The Foundation of Society

3.     Christianisation

4.     The Settlement in Cultural Memory

Part 2. High Medieval Iceland

5.     Church and Society in the Twelfth Century

6.     The Creation of Domains

7.     Civil Strife

8.     Enter the Kingdom

Part 3. Late Medieval Iceland

9.     Pacification and Growth

10. Towards a New Era

11. Trade Wars and Social Anxiety

12. The Reformation

Conclusion: The Course of Icelandic Medieval History

Biographies

Informations pratiques :

Sverrir Jakobsson, Medieval Iceland. Politics, Patronage and Power, Londres, Routledge, 2024 ; 1 vol., 220 p. ISBN : 978-1-03234-894-0. Prix : GBP 135,00.

Source : Routledge