Magic or Medicine? Healing Charms in Fifteenth-Century English Recipe Collections

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13 septembre 2012

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The Recipes Project

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Laura, « Magic or Medicine? Healing Charms in Fifteenth-Century English Recipe Collections », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tcla

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By Laura Mitchell Charms can be found in all manner of medieval manuscripts, scrawled in the margins or added (seemingly at random) on blank pages and in the flyleaves. Usually they were simply stuck in some place convenient by someone who thought they would be useful or interesting to have on hand. However, charms also appear in medieval recipe collections, mixed in with recipes for nosebleeds or toothaches or different coloured inks. In these contexts, where does one separate the charm fro...

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