Historical synthesis, not original manuscript examination. Dates, translations and origin claims require documentary corroboration before timeline use. A modern recreation is evidence of a reconstruction project, not proof of an unchanged medieval recipe.
2017 edition, supplied 232-page PDF. All readable content and page images reviewed; copyright text partly obscured on PDF8. This located passage is readable. Author-attributed content, not independent factual verification.
Broom traces juniper-spirit precedents through manuscripts, trade and migration. He distinguishes a1495 recipe from a2014 reconstruction and questions the simple story that soldiers returning with Dutch courage explain English gin's rise.
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Broom traces juniper-spirit precedents through manuscripts, trade and migration. He distinguishes a1495 recipe from a2014 reconstruction and questions the simple story that soldiers returning with Dutch courage explain English gin's rise.
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No access, 2017 edition; PDF 15–19 (printed 11–15); Low Countries,1495 recreation and Dutch influence. The located text is readable; the separate PDF 8 copyright hold remains.
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Historical synthesis, not original manuscript examination. Dates, translations and origin claims require documentary corroboration before timeline use. A modern recreation is evidence of a reconstruction project, not proof of an unchanged medieval recipe.