Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary,
and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide …

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to
health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research …

Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a
wealth of popular sources-ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, Prayer Books, popular …

The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period's medical
theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern …

In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern
period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of …

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe
publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to …

First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various
forms that constitute" life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only …

If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early …

This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as
it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in …

Locating Privacy in Tudor London asks new questions about where private life was lived in
the early modern period, about where evidence of it has been preserved, and about how …