Middle English Medical Recipes: A Metadiscursive Approach

Quintana-Toledo, Elena

doi:10.2478/v10121-009-0014-5

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“…As seen in (13), the English translator opts for a free translation of the ST. However, this translation is certainly very adequate in medical texts, since the use of the adverbial also followed by any noun phrase, this here, is traditional in this context (Alonso Almeida 1998;Taavitsainen 2001;Quintana Toledo 2009). Both the texts in the ST and the TT make reference to an additional recipe already given in this treatise.…”

Section: Substitutionmentioning

confidence: 97%

‘If they have not the french’: translation choices inThe Happy Deliverie of Women(1612)

Almeida

Hernández

2015

The Translator

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This paper explores the translation strategies followed in the first rendering in English of Jacques Guillemeau's De l'heureux accouchement des femmes (1609), Paris: Nicolas Bvon. Research reveals that the style of translation and the techniques deployed arise from his attitude towards the contents, as reflected in the translator's preface. The translator seeks to preserve female privacy and to avoid mentioning explicit sexual matters. Our framework of analysis relies on Laura Cruz García's model of translation strategies in specialised discourse as set out in 'Copy Adaptation or How to Translate a Source Product into a Target Market', published in Meta: Translator's Journal, 58 (2): 347-72. Quantitative analysis indicates a major tendency on the part of the translator to use substitution devices, but also reduction and extension devices in this order. The use of a third language, namely Latin, is particularly interesting in the translation process of proper nouns, book titles and technical terms, which indicates a marked sign of register appealing to expertise and authority.

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Section: Substitutionmentioning

confidence: 97%

‘If they have not the french’: translation choices inThe Happy Deliverie of Women(1612)

Almeida

Hernández

2015

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“…Medical recipes were in fact "one of the most frequently copied text-types in late medieval England" (Bower, 2022, p. 2). They have received much scholarly interest over the last decades, for instance, Alonso-Almeida (1998-1999, Jones (1998), Carroll (1999Carroll ( , 2004, Taavitsainen (2001), Mäkinen (2004), Quintana-Toledo (2009), de la Cruz Cabanillas (2017a), Marqués-Aguado and Esteban-Segura (2020), Bower (2022). In the Early Modern English period, the role and function of medical recipes have been deal…”

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confidence: 99%

Narratology in Early Modern medical manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 213

Segura

2023

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It has been argued that narrative elements can be found throughout the history of English scientific writing. Narratives can be linked to specific genres; thus, learned texts for medical doctors were different from those directed to lay audiences (Taavitsainen, 2022). This article sets out to analyse a specific type of medical narrative, that of recipe collections, focusing for the purpose on the text housed in London, Wellcome Library, MS 213. The manuscript dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century (1606, more specifically) and gathers recipes “experienced and tryed by the speciall practize of Mrs Corlyon” (Moorat, 1962-1973).[1] The codex belonged to Alethea Howard (née Talbot), Countess of Arundel. The main aim of the study is to identify and examine narrative forms and functions as well as particular features in the collection of recipes held in MS Wellcome 213, which can contribute to the knowledge of recipes written by and for women during the early modern period. [1] This has been taken from the database description of the Library Catalogue of the Wellcome Collection, available at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/u3w8qbrt (date of access: February 2023).

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“…It must be added that whereas medical recipes in ME have received considerable attention (Jones 1998;Carroll 1999 andAlonso-Almeida 1999-2000Taavitsainen 2001;Quintana-Toledo 2009; Marqués-Aguado 2014), research on EModE medical recipes still has much to offer, since "[r]elatively little attention has been paid to recipes from the […] Early Modern English period, especially to the analysis of their structure" (Bator and Sylwanowicz 2018: 103). For instance, some corpus-based studies have been conducted using the Early Modern English Medical Texts corpus (hereafter, EMEMT) that have addressed efficacy phrases (Mäkinen 2011), interpersonal strategies (Marttila 2011) and the structure of recipe headings (Bator and Sylwanowicz 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“A good Receipt to purge”: The Medical Recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MS 8086

Aguado

2018

Comp.J. Eng. Stud.

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Recipes, which have a primary instructional focus, are frequently encountered in scientific texts in the English vernacular written in all periods of the language. Research on recipes in English historical texts has mostly accounted for the linguistic and the structural patterns that they show, often intending to characterising not only recipes themselves, but also the type of text that includes them and/or the potential audience of the text. In line with this research, this article focuses on the recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MS 8086, which holds an Early Modern English recipe collection. The collection is analysed with particular attention to medical recipes, and its features are explored to put it into the broader perspective of recipes and recipe collections in the Early Modern English period. These findings are in turn used to examine the potential readership and character of the text.

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Middle English Medical Recipes: A Metadiscursive Approach

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

‘If they have not the french’: translation choices inThe Happy Deliverie of Women(1612)

‘If they have not the french’: translation choices inThe Happy Deliverie of Women(1612)

Narratology in Early Modern medical manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 213

“A good Receipt to purge”: The Medical Recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MS 8086

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