Elaine Leong
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1076402 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elaine Leong |
| PRENOMES | Elaine |
| SOBRENOME | Leong |
| ASSINATURA | LEONG E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8129-4247 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Warming Technologies, Cold Bodies, and Everyday Health in Early Modern England
This article investigates the history of Sir Richard Carew’s warming stone. Through examination of handwritten notebooks, letters, and printed medical pamphlets, it recovers the theoretical framework shaping the stone’s design as a cure, the creation and launch of medical business in early modern London, the use of cheap print in promoting medical services, and the place of cure testimonials in the marketing of early modern health technologies. I…
Translating Medicine, ca. 800–1900
Research located at the nexus of medicine and translation deals with some of the fundamentals of human experience: the basic drive to survive and flourish and the urge to gather and to share information that might assist in this. Using a series of case studies ranging from ninth-century Baghdad, to fourteenth-century Aragon, to seventeenth-century Cartagena, to nineteenth-century Bengal, this volume weaves together an interconnected, long-view hi…
When the Tallamys Met John French
Centered on the life story of the Tallamy family's copy of John French's The Art of Distillation (London, 1651), this article explores translation, print, and medical reading in early modern England. It traces the adaptation and reuse of textual and practical knowledge across linguistic, geographical, gender, and spatial boundaries and shines light on the scientific labor of translators, technicians, and householders, historical actors who are so…
Learning medicine by the book
Centred on Thomas Brugis's popular Vade mecum , or A Companion for a Chyrurgion fitted for times of Peace or War (1651), this essay considers the role of the instructional book in early modern surgical knowledge and practice. By tracing the fortuna of the Vade mecum from production to use, it shows that, far from being static texts, instructional books were dynamic objects responding and adapting to the changing needs of knowledge communities. I …
Learning by the book
This essay offers an overview of how manuals and handbooks have contributed to the standardization, codification, transmission and revision of knowledge. These instructional and reference texts are distinct from related educational genres such as textbooks and editions due to their focus on practical knowledge. They are also notable for their appearance in diverse times and places, such as ancient Greece, early and medieval China and early modern…
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge
Chapter 5. Writing the Family Archive
This chapter explores the multitude of ways householders used collecting recipes and creating recipe collections to construct and write their own family histories. It argues that gathering recipes and creating recipe collections constituted one aspect of what we might call the “paperwork of kinship.” Early modern householders, it shows, wrote down, collated, and preserved all kinds of paperwork concerning the social and economic holdings of the h…
Chapter 6. Recipes for Sale
By the 1650s, the London booksellers’ shelves were packed with printed recipe collections. With titles like A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets (1653), The Marrow of Physicke, or A Learned Discourse of the Severall Parts of a Mans Body (1640), or simply A Pretious Treasury, these books offered English readers hundreds upon hundreds of recipes. This chapter explores the intersections, commonalities, and differences between the manuscript an…
Chapter 4. Recipe Trials in the Early Modern Household
Opening with Sir Edward Dering’s busy summer of trying and testing drugs, this chapter explores recipe trials. Building on the arguments presented in earlier chapters, this chapter argues that the domestic and family setting brought a particular set of considerations in determining expertise, authority, and value. Investigations into “making trials” on medical recipes in the household thus offer us insight into the assessment and testing in a new…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter argues that recipes and recipe knowledge were framed by the complex concerns of everyday life. The household as a site for making recipe knowledge had far-reaching consequences. For many fathers and mothers, writing it was combined with a dose of family history. Concurrently, recipe books were records of social networks and, most crucially, accounts or ledgers of obligations and gratitude. Writing down recipe knowledge was…
Chapter 2. Managing Health and Household from Afar
Focused on the St. John family, this chapter places collecting and codifying recipe knowledge within the frame of household management and planning in two ways. First, it explores long-term provisioning within early modern households and situates medicine making alongside the production of foods and other processed goods. It contends that the juxtaposition of food and medicine in so many recipe books was a product of the multifaceted role taken o…
Chapter 1. Making Recipe Books in Early Modern England
Centered on the notebooks of Archdale Palmer (1610–73) and the Somerset-based Bennett family, this chapter presents a general overview of patterns of recipe collecting: adopting “starter” collections and gathering single recipes. The chapter shows that many families cultivated local social relationships and used them to extend their treasuries of recipes. It situates the gathering and writing down of recipe knowledge alongside a range of social p…
Chapter 3. Collecting Recipes Step-by-Step
This chapter explores how early modern men and women assessed recipe knowledge and tried and tested cures. It contends that contemporary men and women evaluated potential know-how through multiple steps before assimilating new medical recipes into their treasure chest of homemade cures. Within this scheme of codifying knowledge, making and trying recipes played a central role. It explores this process in three settings. First, it uses the letters…
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge
Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming "treasuries for health," each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elain Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the h…
Testing Drugs and Trying Cures
This article examines traditions of testing drugs (as substances) and trying cures (on patients) in medieval and early modern Europe. It argues that the history of drug testing needs to be a more central story to overall histories of scientific experiment. The practice of conducting thoughtful-and sometimes contrived-tests on drugs has a rich and varied tradition dating back to antiquity, which expanded in the Middle Ages and early modern period.…
Ill Composed
Reviewed by: Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England by Olivia Weisser Elaine Leong Olivia Weisser. Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015. ix + 281 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-0-300-20070-6). In the opening vignette of Ill Composed, Alice Thornton had a literal case of cold feet on her wedding day in 1651. Falling “suddenly, dreadfully, ill” with conti…
Herbals she peruseth’
In 1631, R ichard B rathwaite penned a conduct manual for ‘ E nglish Gentlewomen’. In B rathwaite's mind, the ideal E nglish gentlewoman was not only chaste, modest and honourable but also an avid reader. In fact, B rathwaite specifically recommends E nglish gentlewomen to first peruse herbals and then to deepen their medical knowledge via conference. Centred on the manuscript notebooks of two late seventeenth‐century women, M argaret B oscawen (…
Making Medicines in the Early Modern Household
This article is a study of household medicine production and consumption through an examination of the papers of Elizabeth Freke (1641-1714) and a wider survey of around nine thousand medical recipes in printed and manuscript collections from seventeenth-century England. It investigates the sorts of medicines that may have been produced in early modern households and the production methods, ingredients, and equipment used. Focusing on three inven…
From physick to pharmacology
Chapter 5. Writing the Family Archive
Learning by the book
This essay offers an overview of how manuals and handbooks have contributed to the standardization, codification, transmission and revision of knowledge. These instructional and reference texts are distinct from related educational genres such as textbooks and editions due to their focus on practical knowledge. They are also notable for their appearance in diverse times and places, such as ancient Greece, early and medieval China and early modern…
Herbals she peruseth’
In 1631, R ichard B rathwaite penned a conduct manual for ‘ E nglish Gentlewomen’. In B rathwaite's mind, the ideal E nglish gentlewoman was not only chaste, modest and honourable but also an avid reader. In fact, B rathwaite specifically recommends E nglish gentlewomen to first peruse herbals and then to deepen their medical knowledge via conference. Centred on the manuscript notebooks of two late seventeenth‐century women, M argaret B oscawen (…
From physick to pharmacology
Making Medicines in the Early Modern Household
This article is a study of household medicine production and consumption through an examination of the papers of Elizabeth Freke (1641-1714) and a wider survey of around nine thousand medical recipes in printed and manuscript collections from seventeenth-century England. It investigates the sorts of medicines that may have been produced in early modern households and the production methods, ingredients, and equipment used. Focusing on three inven…
Herbals she peruseth’
In 1631, R ichard B rathwaite penned a conduct manual for ‘ E nglish Gentlewomen’. In B rathwaite's mind, the ideal E nglish gentlewoman was not only chaste, modest and honourable but also an avid reader. In fact, B rathwaite specifically recommends E nglish gentlewomen to first peruse herbals and then to deepen their medical knowledge via conference. Centred on the manuscript notebooks of two late seventeenth‐century women, M argaret B oscawen (…
Ill Composed
Reviewed by: Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England by Olivia Weisser Elaine Leong Olivia Weisser. Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015. ix + 281 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-0-300-20070-6). In the opening vignette of Ill Composed, Alice Thornton had a literal case of cold feet on her wedding day in 1651. Falling “suddenly, dreadfully, ill” with conti…
Testing Drugs and Trying Cures
This article examines traditions of testing drugs (as substances) and trying cures (on patients) in medieval and early modern Europe. It argues that the history of drug testing needs to be a more central story to overall histories of scientific experiment. The practice of conducting thoughtful-and sometimes contrived-tests on drugs has a rich and varied tradition dating back to antiquity, which expanded in the Middle Ages and early modern period.…
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge
Chapter 5. Writing the Family Archive
This chapter explores the multitude of ways householders used collecting recipes and creating recipe collections to construct and write their own family histories. It argues that gathering recipes and creating recipe collections constituted one aspect of what we might call the “paperwork of kinship.” Early modern householders, it shows, wrote down, collated, and preserved all kinds of paperwork concerning the social and economic holdings of the h…
Chapter 6. Recipes for Sale
By the 1650s, the London booksellers’ shelves were packed with printed recipe collections. With titles like A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets (1653), The Marrow of Physicke, or A Learned Discourse of the Severall Parts of a Mans Body (1640), or simply A Pretious Treasury, these books offered English readers hundreds upon hundreds of recipes. This chapter explores the intersections, commonalities, and differences between the manuscript an…
Chapter 4. Recipe Trials in the Early Modern Household
Opening with Sir Edward Dering’s busy summer of trying and testing drugs, this chapter explores recipe trials. Building on the arguments presented in earlier chapters, this chapter argues that the domestic and family setting brought a particular set of considerations in determining expertise, authority, and value. Investigations into “making trials” on medical recipes in the household thus offer us insight into the assessment and testing in a new…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter argues that recipes and recipe knowledge were framed by the complex concerns of everyday life. The household as a site for making recipe knowledge had far-reaching consequences. For many fathers and mothers, writing it was combined with a dose of family history. Concurrently, recipe books were records of social networks and, most crucially, accounts or ledgers of obligations and gratitude. Writing down recipe knowledge was…
Chapter 2. Managing Health and Household from Afar
Focused on the St. John family, this chapter places collecting and codifying recipe knowledge within the frame of household management and planning in two ways. First, it explores long-term provisioning within early modern households and situates medicine making alongside the production of foods and other processed goods. It contends that the juxtaposition of food and medicine in so many recipe books was a product of the multifaceted role taken o…
Chapter 1. Making Recipe Books in Early Modern England
Centered on the notebooks of Archdale Palmer (1610–73) and the Somerset-based Bennett family, this chapter presents a general overview of patterns of recipe collecting: adopting “starter” collections and gathering single recipes. The chapter shows that many families cultivated local social relationships and used them to extend their treasuries of recipes. It situates the gathering and writing down of recipe knowledge alongside a range of social p…
Chapter 3. Collecting Recipes Step-by-Step
This chapter explores how early modern men and women assessed recipe knowledge and tried and tested cures. It contends that contemporary men and women evaluated potential know-how through multiple steps before assimilating new medical recipes into their treasure chest of homemade cures. Within this scheme of codifying knowledge, making and trying recipes played a central role. It explores this process in three settings. First, it uses the letters…
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge
Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming "treasuries for health," each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elain Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the h…
Learning medicine by the book
Centred on Thomas Brugis's popular Vade mecum , or A Companion for a Chyrurgion fitted for times of Peace or War (1651), this essay considers the role of the instructional book in early modern surgical knowledge and practice. By tracing the fortuna of the Vade mecum from production to use, it shows that, far from being static texts, instructional books were dynamic objects responding and adapting to the changing needs of knowledge communities. I …
Learning by the book
This essay offers an overview of how manuals and handbooks have contributed to the standardization, codification, transmission and revision of knowledge. These instructional and reference texts are distinct from related educational genres such as textbooks and editions due to their focus on practical knowledge. They are also notable for their appearance in diverse times and places, such as ancient Greece, early and medieval China and early modern…
Translating Medicine, ca. 800–1900
Research located at the nexus of medicine and translation deals with some of the fundamentals of human experience: the basic drive to survive and flourish and the urge to gather and to share information that might assist in this. Using a series of case studies ranging from ninth-century Baghdad, to fourteenth-century Aragon, to seventeenth-century Cartagena, to nineteenth-century Bengal, this volume weaves together an interconnected, long-view hi…
When the Tallamys Met John French
Centered on the life story of the Tallamy family's copy of John French's The Art of Distillation (London, 1651), this article explores translation, print, and medical reading in early modern England. It traces the adaptation and reuse of textual and practical knowledge across linguistic, geographical, gender, and spatial boundaries and shines light on the scientific labor of translators, technicians, and householders, historical actors who are so…
Chapter 5. Writing the Family Archive
Warming Technologies, Cold Bodies, and Everyday Health in Early Modern England
This article investigates the history of Sir Richard Carew’s warming stone. Through examination of handwritten notebooks, letters, and printed medical pamphlets, it recovers the theoretical framework shaping the stone’s design as a cure, the creation and launch of medical business in early modern London, the use of cheap print in promoting medical services, and the place of cure testimonials in the marketing of early modern health technologies. I…
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