Talk/workshop by Hannah Bower. incorporating opportunities for interactive question and answer session in relation to manuscript images.
This workshop by Hannah Bower explores how recipes for cures - thousands of which were copied in the flyleaves, margins, and pages of medieval manuscripts - were used to order, navigate, and represent ailing bodies.
The workshop will also explore connections between medieval tendencies to collect, accumulate, compile, and order recipes within larger processes of self-fashioning and modern habits of curating images of ourselves and our bodies through social media.
Register in advance at https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uceiprTouGtQvpU4xUuf7SB_n1Cz4vcj0. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The Cambridge Festival, which replaces the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, will host an extensive series of free, online events between 26 March and 4 April this year.
