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Renaissance Goo

A historian of the body and a soft matter scientist experiment with Renaissance personal care recipes

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These posts are related to the Renaissance Goo projects monthly discussion group or other activities.

How to Make A Successful Interdisciplinary Research Project

Reading Time: 5 minutes In June 2022, Renaissance Goo and the Kings College London Centre for Early Modern Studies got together to host a workshop called  Ways of Knowing the Early Modern: Experimental Methods and Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Sarah Cockram, Hannah Murphy and Jill Burke  brought together representatives from some exciting cross-disciplinary projects that focused on the early modern period. […]

14 June 2022 0

Discussion Group 6 May on The Limits of Authenticity: Remaking with Hazardous Materials

Reading Time: 2 minutes   One cliché about Renaissance make up is that it was generally made of materials that were either poisonous (eg mercury, lead, arsenic) or unpalatable (eg bird droppings, human urine, bats’ blood). This fed into a wide range of artistic and literary tropes that linked beauty to vanity and to death, as in George de […]

30 April 2022 0

Failure as Research Method – Brief discussion report and brief bibliography

Reading Time: 2 minutes   As Adriaen Brouwer’s striking painting The Bitter Potion suggests, sometimes improvement takes a bit of suffering. Is the risk of failure the ‘bitter potion’ of remaking projects? The first recipe the Renaissance Goo project tried – for a mastic and olive oil sunscreen – did not work the way we expected it to, but […]

18 January 2022 0

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