Tracts of action : material, visual, and practical dimensions of early modern how-to books / edited by Stefan Laube.
| Other author | Laube, Stefan (Research assistant), editor. |
| Other author | Brill Academic Publishers, publisher. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : color illustrations, facsimiles. |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
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| Variant title | Material, visual, and practical dimensions of early modern how-to books |
| Series | Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 127 Library of the written word. Handpress world ; volume 104 Library of the written word ; 127. ^A767069 Library of the written word. Handpress world ; v. 104. ^A767070 |
| Contents | Introduction: How-to books -- the birth and development of an understudied genre / Stefan Laube -- 1. Can there ever be clueless advice books? Remarks on plague tracts / Stefan Laube -- Part 1. Materiality and traces of use. 2. 'Take', 'do', 'check' : readers and uses of early modern how-to books in the collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek / Petra Feuerstein-Herz -- 3. Who owned the Margarita philosophica and how was it read? A survey of the sixteenth-century copies in the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections / Robert MacLean -- Part 2. Entanglements of jotted, printed and digital steps. 4. Text -- medium -- recording system : recipes in books / Sven Limbeck -- 5. A commerce of secrets : digital and performative approaches to an early modern how-to manuscript at the Making and Knowing Project / Tillmann Taape -- 6. Compilation networks : making early modern books of secrets / Simone Zweifel -- Part 3. Text and image simultaneity. 7. How to fly? Some thoughts on a windy skill / Laurence Grove and Stefan Laube -- 8. Playing with recipe conventions in Den sack der consten / Andrea van Leerdam -- Part 4. Prescription and improvisation. 9. 'That's how you do it!' or Better not? Early modern recipes and their readers / Laura Balbiani -- 10. Smelling good while conjuring the spirits use of 'perfumes' in medieval and early modern magic books / Sergei Zotov -- 11.The Duchess's medicine chest : prescriptions and medicines for Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522-1575) Britta-Juliane Kruse. |
| Abstract | How-to Books are different. They speak to the readers, they prompt them to act. This volume offers a closer look at this widespread and still undergraduated book genre of early modern times. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Brill platform, viewed October 3, 2024). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Tracts of action. Leiden : Brill, [2024] 9789004683372 |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| ISBN | 9004683380 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9789004683389 electronic book |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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