Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1812
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9780719081132
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 150,000 word scholarly edition of three newly collated and edited works, represents a complex piece of research over a ten-year period (2007-2017). It provides a general introduction, plus introductions, collations and explanatory notes for each dietary. The book has five scholarly appendices including material from earlier editions of these texts, a glossary of words, and authorities and works cited or alluded to in the dietaries. The collation phase required the detailed comparison of over 30 early editions in US and UK rare book libraries including the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard and Cambridge University Library.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Investigations of early modern dietaries have hitherto been hampered by the lack of modern critical editions of them. This edition presents three examples which are contextualized in detail and, most importantly, freshly collated, edited, and modernized for the first time. The collation phase required the detailed comparison of over 30 early editions in US and UK rare book libraries.
Notes accompanying the edited texts highlight pertinent connections with literature and culture from the period, specifically the eclectic range of learning to which dietary literature was indebted, for example medical history, popular food lore, the relationship between physical and psychological well-being, and the impact of age, gender, location and even occupation upon diet and physical health.
This scholarly, modern-spelling, critical edition of three sixteenth century dietaries makes available to the modern reader for the first time texts that were formerly only available via Early English Books Online (EEBO): Thomas Elyot’s Castle of Health (1541), Andrew Boorde’s Compendious Regiment or Dietary of Health (1547), and William Bullein’s Government of Health (1558). The volume is aimed at readers interested in the history of food, medicine, and how these early printed books evolved through successive editions.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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