Translations are my own where none is listed.
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"How to Remove a Tattoo": 4-5.
Agricola, Georgius. De re metallica. Trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, De re
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"How to Get Rich": 6.
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le régime du corps de Maître Aldebrandin de Sienne, ed. Louis Landouzy and
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Amanieu de Sescás, Enssenhamen de l'escudier. Transl. Mark. D. Johnston, "The
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"How to Look Good on a Budget": 32-3.
Anne de France, Enseignements à sa fille, trans. Sharon L. Jansen, Anne of France: Lessons for My
Daughter (Cambridge, 2004).
"How to Dress (Teen Girl Edition)": 37.
Apuleii liber de medicaminibus herbarum (BL Harley 4986). Ed. and transl. George C. Druce, "The
Elephant in Medieval Legend and Art," Journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute 76 (1919).
"How to Harvest the Mandrake": 46.
Aetius of Amida, Tetrabiblion. Ed. Alessandro Olivieri, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum VIII/2
(Berlin, 1950), pp. 417-18. Trans. C. P. Jones, "Stigma and Tattoo," in Written on the Body:
The Tattoo in European and American History, ed. Jane Caplan (Princeton, 2000).
"How to Remove a Tattoo": 4-5.
Agricola, Georgius. De re metallica. Trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, De re
metallica libri XII (London, 1912).
"How to Get Rich": 6.
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le régime du corps de Maître Aldebrandin de Sienne, ed. Louis Landouzy and
Roger Pépin (Paris, 1911), 71-82. Transl. Faith Wallis, Medieval Medicine: A Reader, 495-6.
Amanieu de Sescás, Enssenhamen de l'escudier. Transl. Mark. D. Johnston, "The
Occitan Enssenhamen de l'escudier and Essenhamen de la donzela of Amanieu de Sescás," in Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behaviour for Youths, with English Translations, ed. Mark. D. Johnston (Toronto, 2009).
"How to Look Good on a Budget": 32-3.
Anne de France, Enseignements à sa fille, trans. Sharon L. Jansen, Anne of France: Lessons for My
Daughter (Cambridge, 2004).
"How to Dress (Teen Girl Edition)": 37.
Apuleii liber de medicaminibus herbarum (BL Harley 4986). Ed. and transl. George C. Druce, "The
Elephant in Medieval Legend and Art," Journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute 76 (1919).
"How to Harvest the Mandrake": 46.
Dancing." Dance Research 4, no. 2 (1986), 3-53.
"How to Dress for Dancing": 27-8.
"How to Impress Girls at a Dance": 33-5.
"How to Save Your Soul at a Dance": 37.
Barberino, Francesco da. Reggimento e costumi di donna. Trans. Eleonora Stoppino, in Medieval
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"How to Please Italian Gentlemen": 137.
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"How to Bust a Move": 228.
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"How to Interview People Abroad": 99, 187, 260, 320, 428.
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"How to Sing": 25.
Blaikie, William. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So (New York, 1884).
"How to Get Strong": 236.
The Booke of Pretty Conceits: Taken out of Latine, French, Dutch and English (London, 1628).
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"How to Interpret Italian Gestures": Chapter XXV.
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"How to Pack for a Voyage": 128-9.
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"How to Wear Platform Shoes": 141.
Chamberlayn, John, trans. The Manner of Making Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate (London, 1685).
"How to Make Coffee": 8-10.
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"How to Be a Powerful Woman": 45-6.
Cobleigh, Rolfe. Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them (New York, 1910).
"How to Make a Dog Do Chores": 67-8.
A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the Use of All
Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses (London, 1714).
"How to Make Waffles": 95-6.
The Complete Vermin-Killer: A Valuable and Useful Companion for Families, in Town and Country,
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"How to Kill Bedbugs": 4.
"How to Garden with Lobsters": 66.
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Della Casa, Giovanni. Il Galateo overo de' costumi. Trans. Konrad Eisenbichler and Kenneth R.
Bartlett, A Renaissance Treatise on Manners (Toronto, 2001).
"How to Party Like a Scholar": 9-10.
Della Casa, Giovanni. Il Galateo overo de' costumi. Trans. M. F. Rusnak, Galateo: Or, The Rules of
Polite Behavior (Chicago, 2013).
"How to Tell Jokes": 47.
"How to Talk About Your Kids": 48-9.
Dickinson, Francisco. A Precious Treasury of Twenty Rare Secrets (London, 1649).
"How to Keep Wine from Going Sour": X.
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"How to Enchant Your Lover"
"How to Maintain a Relationship"
Duncan, Thomas Cation. How to Be Plump, or Talks on Physiological Feeding (Chicago, 1878).
"How to Be Plump": 51; 54; 45.
Gainsford, Thomas (?). The Rich Cabinet...Whereunto is Annexed the Epitome of Good Manners,
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Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (London, 1774).
"How to Make Ketchup": 240.
Gould, John Mead. Hints for Camping and Walking: How to Camp Out (New York, 1877).
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Graecus, Marcus. Liber ignium ad comburendos hostes. Ed. and trans. J. R. Partington, A History of
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"How to Make Bird Missiles": 46.
"How to Train Your Cat to Do Tricks": 148-9.
Haskins, Charles Homer. "The Life of Medieval Students As Illustrated by Their Letters." The American
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"How to Succeed at University": 214.
Heim, R. L. M. "Incantamenta magica graeca latina." Jahrbuch für Classiche Philologie Suppl. 19
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"How to Cure a Headache": 556.
Hierophilus the Sophist, Dietary Calendar. Trans. Andrew Dalby, Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine
of a Legendary Empire (London, 2003).
"How to Make It Through November": 168.
"How to Bathe in January": 162.
Hildegard of Bingen, Physica, tr. Priscilla Throop (Rochester, VT, 1998).
"How to Use Wheat": 10-11.
Hill, Thomas. Naturall and Artificiall Conclusions (London, 1649).
"How to Walk on Water": xlix.
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"How to Dress Your Child": 23.
Johannes de Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, trans. Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold
Richard Aldridge, Johannes de Mirfield of St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield; His Life and Works
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"How to Tell if Someone Is or Is Not Dead": 69.
Kieckhefer, Richard. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (University
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"How to See the Future": 105.
Lawson, William. A New Orchard and Garden (London, 1631).
"How to Exercise in Your Orchard": 71-2.
Lupton, Thomas. A Thousand Notable Things, of Sundry Sortes (London, 1579).
"How to Cure Laryngitis": 154-5
Leipzig University Statutes, ed. Friedrich Zarncke, Die Statutenbücher der Universität Leipzig, trans.
Robert Francis Seybolt, The Manuale Scholarium: An Original Account of Life in the Mediaeval University (Cambridge, MA, 1921).
"How to Treat the Freshmen": 21-2, n. 6 (translation slightly modified).
Le Ménagier de Paris. Trans. Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose. The Good Wife’s Guide: A
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"How to Kill Flies": 140.
Martino da Como, The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book, ed. Luigi Ballerini and tr. Jeremy
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"How to Serve a Flaming Bird": 54.
Misson, Maximilien. A New Voyage to Italy (London, 1695).
"How to Cure Seasickness": II.335
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"How to Eat Seasonally": 122.
Montaigne, Marie. How to Be Beautiful (New York, 1913).
"How to Practice Your Side Eye": 20.
Natural Magick by John Baptista Porta (London, 1658).
"How to Make Men Rave": 219
Perrucci, Andrea. Dell'arte rappresentativa, premeditata, ed all'improvviso. Ed. and trans. Francesco
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"How to Be a Serious Actor": 69-70.
Peter of Fagarola, Letter to His Sons. Lynn Thorndike, "Translation of a Letter from a Physician of
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How to Exercise in Cold Weather: 20.
Platina, Bartolomeo. De honesta voluptate et valetudine. Trans. Mary Ella Milham, Platina, On Right
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"How to Spend Your Summer": 111.
"How to Make an Eel Pie": 374-5.
Raffald, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies,
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"How to Care For Your Teeth": 38.
Richard of Bury. Philobiblon. Transl. E. C. Thomas (London, 1903).
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'How to Make Someone Die of Laughter": 90.
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How to Dress Warmly: 113.
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"How to Wash Your Hair": 171.
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