Medieval Recipes with Claire Burridge
Episode 128 - October 9, 2024
Claire Burridge (University of Oslo) comes on the podcast to discuss her work on “medical minitexts” such as recipe added to medieval manuscripts otherwise unrelated to medicine. The conversation begins with a broad framing of the period of and the genre of medical manuscripts before zooming into some of the recipes that address a variety of health issues. Claire reflects on the ingredients for the recipes, the ways in which they changed over time, whether or not they work, and the extent to which they circulated in and beyond regions. She also draws some of the new connections between some recipes and osteological research.
Further Reading
- Burridge, Claire. Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c. 775-900: New Approaches to Recipe Literature. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
- Burridge, Claire. ‘Incense in Medicine: An Early Medieval Perspective’. Early Medieval Europe 28, no. 2 (2020): 219–55.
- Horden, Peregrine. ‘Prefatory Note: The Uses of Medical Manuscripts’. In Medical Books in the Byzantine World, edited by Barbara Zipser, 1–6. Bologna: Università di Bologna, 2013.
- Horden, Peregrine. ‘What’s Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine?’ Social History of Medicine 24, no. 1 (2011): 5–25.
- Leja, Meg. Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
- Wallis, Faith. ‘The Experience of the Book: Manuscripts, Texts, and the Role of Epistemology in Early Medieval Medicine’. In Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, edited by Don G. Bates, 101–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Our Guests
Claire Burridge
Researcher – Department of Archaeology, Conversation and History – University of Oslo
