Rachel Winchcombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Winchcombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Winchcombe |
| SIGNATURE | WINCHCOMBE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0439-0950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Limits of Disgust
This article reexamines the dietary choices made by English colonists during the notorious Starving Time of 1609–10. During moments of crisis, like the Starving Time, attitudes toward foods normally deemed disgusting, such as vermin and human flesh, could be recalibrated. Ideas of edibility and permissible dietary behavior were pliable, changeable, and grounded in a social environment in which hunger and ill health were pervasive but nonetheless …
Comfort Eating
This article explores early modern practices of ‘comfort eating’, arguing that they represent a crucial dimension of early modern preventative healthcare. The article argues that ideas of comfort eating were shaped not only by medical understandings of the composition of foods and their impact on the body, particularly on the levels of the four humours, but also by the cultural and social significance of certain foods, along with when, where, and…
Foodways and Emotional Communities in Early Colonial Virginia
This article argues that in colonial Virginia a variety of emotional communities were knitted together by processes of food provisioning, which were themselves inseparable from environmental influences. As a fundamental necessity, a central component of early modern conceptions of community and friendship and crucially as something that was scarce in a colonial context, food had the power to engender a range of emotional relationships, both posit…
Reprinting the Colonial Past
John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia (1624) was produced at a time when the English settlements in Virginia were in a perilous position. The English colonists were still reeling from an Indigenous attack in 1622 which had left hundreds of colonists dead and a number of settlements destroyed. Smith, while ostensibly producing a history of the early English settlements, also sought to provide a remedy to the dire circumstances his fellow Engl…
Encountering early America
This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement. The book traces the dynamism of early English encounters with the Americas and the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the new lands across the Atlantic. It illustrates that rather than be…
If You Love Me You Will Redeeme Me’
This article utilises the four letters of Richard Frethorne, a child indentured servant sent to Virginia in 1622, to reconstruct how children expressed conceptions of childhood in the early modern period. As this article argues, in his letters home Richard used specific attributes of childhood in an attempt to have his indenture redeemed. Moving beyond the adult voices that have dominated discussions of early modern childhood, this article argues…
Authenticating El Dorado
This article takes a fresh approach to Walter Ralegh's published account of his voyage to Guiana, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596), using it as a case study through which to explore the fragility of sixteenth-century processes of knowledge production about new lands. The article revisits this famous account in order to scrutinise in more detail the types of evidence Ralegh used to support his claims that a r…
The Limits of Disgust
This article reexamines the dietary choices made by English colonists during the notorious Starving Time of 1609–10. During moments of crisis, like the Starving Time, attitudes toward foods normally deemed disgusting, such as vermin and human flesh, could be recalibrated. Ideas of edibility and permissible dietary behavior were pliable, changeable, and grounded in a social environment in which hunger and ill health were pervasive but nonetheless …
Reprinting the Colonial Past
John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia (1624) was produced at a time when the English settlements in Virginia were in a perilous position. The English colonists were still reeling from an Indigenous attack in 1622 which had left hundreds of colonists dead and a number of settlements destroyed. Smith, while ostensibly producing a history of the early English settlements, also sought to provide a remedy to the dire circumstances his fellow Engl…
Authenticating El Dorado
This article takes a fresh approach to Walter Ralegh's published account of his voyage to Guiana, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596), using it as a case study through which to explore the fragility of sixteenth-century processes of knowledge production about new lands. The article revisits this famous account in order to scrutinise in more detail the types of evidence Ralegh used to support his claims that a r…
If You Love Me You Will Redeeme Me’
This article utilises the four letters of Richard Frethorne, a child indentured servant sent to Virginia in 1622, to reconstruct how children expressed conceptions of childhood in the early modern period. As this article argues, in his letters home Richard used specific attributes of childhood in an attempt to have his indenture redeemed. Moving beyond the adult voices that have dominated discussions of early modern childhood, this article argues…
Encountering early America
This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement. The book traces the dynamism of early English encounters with the Americas and the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the new lands across the Atlantic. It illustrates that rather than be…
Foodways and Emotional Communities in Early Colonial Virginia
This article argues that in colonial Virginia a variety of emotional communities were knitted together by processes of food provisioning, which were themselves inseparable from environmental influences. As a fundamental necessity, a central component of early modern conceptions of community and friendship and crucially as something that was scarce in a colonial context, food had the power to engender a range of emotional relationships, both posit…
Reprinting the Colonial Past
John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia (1624) was produced at a time when the English settlements in Virginia were in a perilous position. The English colonists were still reeling from an Indigenous attack in 1622 which had left hundreds of colonists dead and a number of settlements destroyed. Smith, while ostensibly producing a history of the early English settlements, also sought to provide a remedy to the dire circumstances his fellow Engl…
The Limits of Disgust
This article reexamines the dietary choices made by English colonists during the notorious Starving Time of 1609–10. During moments of crisis, like the Starving Time, attitudes toward foods normally deemed disgusting, such as vermin and human flesh, could be recalibrated. Ideas of edibility and permissible dietary behavior were pliable, changeable, and grounded in a social environment in which hunger and ill health were pervasive but nonetheless …
Comfort Eating
This article explores early modern practices of ‘comfort eating’, arguing that they represent a crucial dimension of early modern preventative healthcare. The article argues that ideas of comfort eating were shaped not only by medical understandings of the composition of foods and their impact on the body, particularly on the levels of the four humours, but also by the cultural and social significance of certain foods, along with when, where, and…
History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)