Madeline Shanahan

Manuscript Recipe Books as Archaeological Objects

Text and Food in the Early Modern World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a detailed study of Irish manuscript recipe books dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the close of the Georgian period (1830) from the perspective of historical archaeology. It is the first published study of the Irish collection of manuscript recipe books, as well as the first published archaeological study of the genre globally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780739191910
• ISBN-10: 0739191918
• Artikelnr.: 41415523

Autorenporträt

Madeline Shanahan has worked as a consultant historical archaeologist and historian in Dublin, Sydney, and Melbourne. Her research interests and expertise relate to post-medieval Ireland, food history, early modern women, domestic space, and historical archaeology theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents List of Figures Apéritif Introduction Chapter 1: Text and
Historical Archaeology Chapter 2: Food and Cookery in Early Modern Ireland
Chapter 3: Dining in the Early Modern World Chapter 4: A Short History of
Recipe Books Chapter 5: Irish Manuscript Recipe Books: Form, Function and
Chronology Chapter 6: Irish Manuscript Recipe Books: Contents Chapter 7:
Recipes for Modernity Chapter 8: Texts and Objects in the Early Modern
House References Appendix