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Translations are my own where none is listed.
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How to Impress Girls at a Dance, 1530: Antonius Arena, Leges dansandi, ed. and trans. John Guthrie and Marino Zorzi, “Rules of Dancing,” Dance Research 4, no. 2 (1986), 33-5, translation slightly adapted.
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How to Interpret Dreams, c. 1100: Germanus, Oneirocriticon, trans. Steven M. Oberhelman, Dreambooks in Byzantium: Six Oneirocritica in Translation, with Commentary (Aldershot, 2008), 153–66.
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How to Keep Your Hands Warm, 1579: Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things, of Sundry Sortes (London, 1579), 61.
How to Kill Bedbugs, 1777: The Complete Vermin-Killer: A Valuable and Useful Companion for Families, in Town and Country, 4th ed. (London, 1777), 3-4.
How to Kill Fleas, 1688: R. W., A Necessary Family-Book (London, 1688), 33.
How to Kill Flies, circa 1400: Le Ménagier de Paris, trans. Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, The Good Wife’s Guide: A Medieval Household Book (Ithaca, NY, 2009), 140.
How to Kill Snakes, 1688: R. W., A Necessary Family-Book (London, 1688), 18.
How to Know If You’re Pregnant, 1685: Nicolas Lemery, Modern Curiosities of Art & Nature, 70.
How to Light a Fire, 1612: The Booke of Pretty Conceits: Taken out of Latine, French, Dutch and English (London, 1612) A2r.
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How to Make a Cheesy Omelet, c. 1393: Le Ménagier de Paris, trans. Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, The Good Wife’s Guide: A Medieval Household Book (Ithaca, NY, 2009), 310–11.
How to Make Chocolate, 1685: Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, The Manner of Making Coffee, Tea and Chocolate, trans. John Chamberlayn (London, 1685), 72.
How to Make a Christmas Pie, 1774: Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (London, 1774), 139–40.
How to Make Cock Ale, 1697: A New Book of Knowledge (London, 1697), 3.
How to Make Coffee, 1685: Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, The Manner of Making Coffee, Tea and Chocolate, trans. Chamberlayn, 8–10.
How to Make a Cooked Bird Sing, c. 1450: The Vivendier: A Critical Edition with English Translation, ed. and trans. Terence Scully (Devon, 1997), 83.
How to Make a Dog Do Chores, 1910: Rolfe Cobleigh, Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them (New York, 1910), 67-8.
How to Make a Dragon out of Fireworks: John White, A Rich Cabinet (London, 1658), 102-3.
How to Make an Eel Pie, 1465: Bartolomeo Platina, De honesta voluptate et valetudine, trans. Mary Ella Milham, Platina, On Right Pleasure and Good Health: A Critical Edition and Translation of De honesta voluptate et valetudine (Tempe, Ariz., 1998), 374-5.
How to Make French Toast, 1660: Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery (London, 1660), 162.
How to Make a Giant Egg, 1660: Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery (London, 1660), 427–8.
How to Make Glow-in-the-Dark Ink, 1661: Johann Jacob Wecker, Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature (London, 1661), 270.
How to Make a Hedgehog, 1725: Robert Smith, Court Cookery: Or, the Compleat English Cook (London, 1725), 102.
How to Make an Ice Velocipede, 1869: “Velox,” Velocipedes, Bicycles, and Tricycles: How to Make and How to Use Them (London, 1869), 112.
How to Make It Through November, c. 7th century: Hierophilus the Sophist, Dietary Calendar, trans. Andrew Dalby, Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire (London, 2003), 168.
How to Make Ketchup, 1774: Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (London, 1774), 240.
How to Make Macaroni, 15th century: Terence Scully, ed. and trans., The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco Napoletano (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), 178.
How to Make a Rainbow, 1633: Hendrik van Etten [Jean Leurechon?], Mathematicall Recreations (London, 1633), 66–8.
How to Make Men Rave, 1658: Natural Magick by John Baptista Porta (London, 1658), 219.
How to Make Pink Pancakes, 1786: Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. (London, 1786), 167.
How to Make a Rain of Fireworks, 1658: John White, A Rich Cabinet (London, 1658), 60.
How to Make Snail Bread, 1685: Nicolas Lemery, Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature, 240–1.
How to Make Someone Die of Laughter, thirteenth century: Richardus Salernitanus, Anatomia, ed. I. Schwarz, Die Medizinischen Handschriften der K. Universitätsbibliothek im Würzburg (Würzburg, 1907), 90.
How to Make Waffles, 1714: 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), 95-6.
How to Make a Watermelon Cake, 1896: Smiley’s Cook Book (Chicago, 1896), 387.
How to Make Your Own Lip Balm, 1579: Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things, of Sundry Sortes (London, 1579), 2.
How to Mix Drinks for Ladies, 1892: William Schmidt, The Flowing Bowl: When and What to Drink (New York, 1892), 164.
How to Mouse-Proof Your Cheese, 1581: Thomas Hill, A Briefe and Pleasaunt Treatise, Entituled, Naturall and Artificiall Conclusions (London, 1581), G1v.
How to Pack for Camping, 1877: John Mead Gould, Hints for Camping and Walking: How to Camp Out (New York, 1877), 17.
How to Pack for a Voyage, 1480: Santo Brasca, Viaggio in Terrasanta, ed. Anna Laura Momigliano Lepschy, Viaggio in Terrasanta di Santo Brasca 1480 (Milan, 1966), 128–9.
How to Party Like a Scholar, 1558: Giovanni Della Casa, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi, trans. Konrad Eisenbichler and Kenneth R. Bartlett, A Renaissance Treatise on Manners (Toronto, 2001), 9-10.
How to Practice Your Side Eye, 1913: Marie Montaigne, How to Be Beautiful (New York, 1913), 20.
How to Predict Rain, c. 300 BCE: Theophrastus of Eresus, On Weather Signs, ed. and trans. David Sider and Carl Wolfram Brunschön (Leiden, 2007), 67-70.
How to Prevent Drunkenness, 1653: Hugh Plat, The Jewel House of Art and Nature (London, 1653), 59.
How to Put Out a Fire, twelfth century: Mappae clavicula, trans. Smith and Hawthorne, 70.
How to Put People to Sleep With Music, 1660: Johann Jacob Wecker, Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature (London, 1660), 295.
How to Remove a Tattoo, c. 500: Aetius of Amida, Tetrabiblion, ed. Alessandro Olivieri, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum VIII/2 (Berlin, 1950), 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),4-5.
How to Replace a Nose, 1587: Gaspare Tagliacozzi, Letter to Girolamo Mercuriale, in M. T. Gnudi and J. P. Webster, The Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi. Surgeon of Bologna 1549-1599 (New York, 1950).
How to Run, 1836: Donald Walker, British Manly Exercises (Philadelphia, 1836), 29-32.
How to Save Your Soul at a Dance, 1530: Antonius Arena, Leges dansandi, ed. and trans. John Guthrie and Marino Zorzi, “Rules of Dancing,” Dance Research 4, no. 2 (1986), 37.
How to See the Future, c. 1450: Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (University Park, PA, 1997), 105.
How to Serve a Flaming Bird, c. 1465: Martino da Como, The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book, ed. Luigi Ballerini and tr. Jeremy Parzen (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2005), 54.
How to Serve a Live Bird at a Feast, c. 1450: Terence Scully, ed. and trans., The Vivendier: A Critical Edition with English Translation (Devon, 1997), 81.
How to Serve Wine to Your Toddler, c. 1450: Michele Savonarola, Ad mulieres ferrarienses de regimine pregnantium et noviter natorum usque ad septennium, ed. Luigi Belloni, Il trattato ginecologico-pediatrico in volgare (Milan, 1952).
How to Sing, 1650: Christoph Bernhard, Von der Singe-Kunst oder Manier, trans. Walter Hilse, “The Treatises of Christoph Bernhard,” The Music Forum III (1973), 25.
How to Slim Down, 12th century: The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, ed. and trans. Monica H. Green (Philadelphia, 2001), 123.
How to Slim Down in Fourteen Days, 1579: Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things, of Sundry Sortes (London, 1579), 49.
How to Spend Your Summer, 1465: Bartolomeo Platina, De honesta voluptate et valetudine, trans. Mary Ella Milham, Platina, On Right Pleasure and Good Health: A Critical Edition and Translation of De honesta voluptate et valetudine (Tempe, Ariz., 1998), 111.
How to Stay Young, 1489: Marsilio Ficino, De vita libri tres, ed. and trans. Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clarke, Three Books on Life (Binghamton, NY, 1989), 197.
How to Stop Bleeding, 1664: Samuel Strangehopes, A Book of Knowledge in Three Parts (London, 166[4]), 92.
How to Succeed at University, 1471: Charles Homer Haskins, “The Life of Medieval Students As Illustrated by Their Letters,” The American Historical Review 3, no. 2 (1898), 214.
How to Sweet Talk Your Lady, 1656: Cupids Master-piece, or, the Free-school of Witty and Delightful Complements (London, 1656).
How to Swim Like a Man, 1860: Donald Walker, Walker’s Manly Exercises: Containing Rowing, Sailing, Riding, Driving, Hunting, Shooting, and Other Manly Sports, rev. ‘Craven’ (London, 1860), 86.
How to Talk About Your Kids, 1558: Giovanni Della Casa, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi, trans. M. F. Rusnak, Galateo: Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior (Chicago, 2013), 48-9.
How to Tell Jokes, 1558: Giovanni Della Casa, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi, trans. M. F. Rusnak, Galateo: Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior (Chicago, 2013), 47.
How to Tell if Someone Is or Is Not Dead, c. 1380: Johannes de Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, trans. Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge, Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew’s, Smithfield; His Life and Works (Cambridge, 1936), 69.
How to Test Water Quality, c. 15 BCE: Vitruvius, On Architecture, trans. Richard Schofield (New York, 2009), VIII.4.
How to Train Your Cat to Do Tricks, 1809: Jesse Haney, Haney’s Art of Training Animals (New York, 1809), 148–9.
How to Treat the Freshmen, 1495: 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), 21-2, n. 6 (translation slightly modified).
How to Treat Redness of the Face, 12th c.: The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, ed. and trans. Monica H. Green (Philadelphia, 2001), 141.
How to Trim Your Toenails Underwater, 1789: Melchisédech Thévenot, The Art of Swimming, Illustrated by Forty Proper Copper-Plate Cuts, Which Represent the Different Postures Necessary to be Used in that Art. With Advice for Bathing, 3rd ed. (London, 1789), 47-8.
How to Use Bacon, c. 530: Anthimus, De obseruatione ciborum, ed. and trans. Mark Grant (Totnes, 1996), 57.
How to Use Dry Shampoo, 12th century: The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, ed. and trans. Monica H. Green (Philadelphia, 2001), 114-5.
How to Use Wheat, c. 1150: Hildegard of Bingen, Physica, tr. Priscilla Throop (Rochester, VT, 1998), 10-11.
How to Wake or Sleep, 1685: Nicolas Lemery, Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature (London, 1685), 26.
How to Walk on Water, 1581: Thomas Hill, A Briefe and Pleasaunt Treatise, Entituled, Naturall and Artificiall Conclusions, C5r.
How to Wash Your Hair, 12th century: The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, ed. and trans. Monica H. Green (Philadelphia, 2001), 171.
How to Wash Your Head, 1612: William Vaughan, Approved Directions for Health (London, 1612), 71.
How to Wear Gentlemanly Underwear, 1891: Mortimer Delano de Lannoy, Simplex Munditiis. Gentlemen (New York, 1891), 55.
How to Wear Platform Shoes, 1600: Fabritio Caroso, Nobiltà di dame, ed. and trans. Julia Sutton, Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the Nobiltà di Dame (1600) (New York, 1995), 141.
How to Whiten Your Teeth, 1686: Hannah Woolley, The Accomplish’d Ladies Delight, 95.
How to Woo with Whiskers, 1839: John Adey Repton, Some Account of the Beard and the Moustachio, Chiefly from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (London, 1839), 23.
The Past Asks You: Apple Economics, 1698: T. T., A Rich Treasure (London, 1698?), 34.