The Culinary Recipes of Medieval England

This is the last book by a great historian of medieval culture in which she has produced anepitomyof all surviving English medieval recipes through meticulous translation. The great advantage for students of medieval English cookery is that there is an identifiable corpus of evidence in the manuscripts that have survived to the present day. Although there may be some new discoveries, in general terms the corpus is relatively stable. The beauty of this book is that it addresses the corpus as...