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Manuscript recipe books as archaeological objects : text and food in the early modern world / Madeline Shanahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shanahan, Madeline, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology and history--Ireland.
- Archaeology and history.
- Cooking, Irish--History.
- Cooking, Irish.
- Cooking--Ireland--History.
- Cooking.
- Food habits--Ireland--History.
- Food habits.
- Manuscripts--Ireland--History.
- Manuscripts.
- Cookbooks as Topic--history.
- Cooking--history.
- Ireland.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cookbooks as Topic--history.
- Cooking--history.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Toward a fremework for the analysis of textual objects in historical archaeology
- Irish manuscript recipe books
- Material culture in the early modern kitchen
- Tastes of empire
- Recipes for the modern women
- "Wright by her own hande" : kinship, community anad the individual.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41487-2
- 0-7391-9192-6
- OCLC:
- 898476933
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