Von Speis zu kochen
Kochbücher und Rezeptsammlungen als diskursive Praktiken und Quellen für die Kulturgeschichte des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
Barbara Denicolò
Historical recipes are more than just instructions for eating – they offer fascinating insights into the social, cultural, and material dimensions of past ways of life. Barbara Denicolò provides the first comprehensive historical analysis of German-language recipes from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. The focus is not only on the recipes themselves, but also on the individuals involved, the fields of discourse, and the systems of knowledge.
Through an innovative combination of digital editing, semantic annotation, and historical discourse analysis, the author unlocks the content of these recipe collections and makes them accessible for interdisciplinary research. Recipes can thus serve as a reflection of everyday culture, the history of food, and medical traditions. This is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the history of food and drink, materiality, and the digitization of historical sources.