Middle English medical recipes and literary play, 1375-1500 / / Hannah Bower.

• Superior document: Oxford English monographs
• VerfasserIn: Bower, Hannah, 1993-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford English monographs.; Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Notes: This edition also issued in print: 2022.; "is is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

This is a detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. It explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to late medieval manuscripts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed,...