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9 mars 2023
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RA Kashanipour, « Playing with Language in Medieval Satirical Recipes », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdda
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By Chelsea Silva The anonymous Scots poem “Lord Fergus’s Gaist” instructs its reader in summoning a spirit. It calls for a range of ingredients, some of which are unusual but obtainable, such as horse teeth, the tails of toads, and bundles of withered grass—just the kind of vaguely spooky materials we might expect to use in a conjuration. The coherence of the recipe’s instructions stops there, however; the summoner must sit within a circle and sprinkle holy water “w[ith] pater noster pa...