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Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England (2016)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Wallis, F. (2016). Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England. The English Historical Review, 131(553), 1353-1385. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex013

This article presents a collection of culinary recipes from a manuscript produced in England from the later twelfth century. The suite of ten recipes for ‘Poitou sauces’ or ‘Poitou relishes’ (salsamenta pictavensium—literally ‘of the Poitevins’) to g... Read More about Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England.

Listening Between the Lines: Medieval and Modern Science (2016)
Journal Article
Gasper, G., McLeish, T. C., & Smithson, H. E. (2016). Listening Between the Lines: Medieval and Modern Science. Palgrave communications, 2, Article 16062. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.62

In this article the investigators of the Ordered Universe project will reflect on how a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives essential for effective research into medieval science have been identified, acknowledged and absorbed into a genuinely... Read More about Listening Between the Lines: Medieval and Modern Science.

The Fulfillment of Science: Nature, Creation and Man in the Hexaemeron of Robert Grosseteste (2016)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2016). The Fulfillment of Science: Nature, Creation and Man in the Hexaemeron of Robert Grosseteste. In J. P. Cunningham, & M. Hocknull (Eds.), Robert Grosseteste and the pursuit of religious and scientific learning in the Middle-Ages (221-242). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33468-4_12

Robert Grosseteste’s commentary on the six days of creation, the Hexaemeron, is one of his most extensive and detailed theological works. Composed during his time as bishop of Lincoln, it draws on earlier lectures, notably those on Genesis, and his s... Read More about The Fulfillment of Science: Nature, Creation and Man in the Hexaemeron of Robert Grosseteste.