Tracts of Action : : Material, Visual, and Practical Dimensions of Early Modern How-to Books / / edited by Stefan Laube.
This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What ingredients do I need for a effective remedy? How can one find and mine mineral resources, how does one make pewter cups or a good meal? Practical information of this kind, on...
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| Superior document: | Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2024 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024. ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (335 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Preliminary Material / Stefan Laube
- Chapter 1 Can There Ever Be Clueless Advice Books? Remarks on Plague Tracts / Stefan Laube
- Part 1 Materiality and Traces of Use
- Chapter 2 ‘Take’, ‘Do’, ‘Check’: Readers and Uses of Early Modern How-to Books in the Collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek / Petra Feuerstein-Herz
- Chapter 3 Who Owned the Margarita Philosophica and How Was It Read? / Robert MacLean
- Part 2 Entanglements of Jotted, Printed and Digital Steps
- Chapter 4 Text – Medium – Recording System: Recipes in Books / Sven Limbeck
- Chapter 5 A Commerce of Secrets: Digital and Performative Approaches to an Early Modern How-to Manuscript at the Making and Knowing Project / Tillmann Taape
- Chapter 6 Compilation Networks: Making Early Modern Books of Secrets / Simone Zweifel
- Part 3 Text and Image Simultaneity
- Chapter 7 How to Fly? Some Thoughts on a Windy Skill / Laurence Grove and Stefan Laube
- Chapter 8 Playing with Recipe Conventions in Den sack der consten / Andrea van Leerdam
- Part 4 Prescription and Improvisation
- Chapter 9 ‘That’s How You Do It!’ or Better not? Early Modern Recipes and Their Readers / Laura Balbiani
- Chapter 10 Smelling Good While Conjuring the Spirits / Sergei Zotov
- Chapter 11 The Duchess’s Medicine Chest: Prescriptions and Medicines for Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522–1575) / Britta-Juliane Kruse
- Back Matter
- Index.