Interview

Stefan Hanß, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Analysing Renaissance recipes

Modern chemistry meets Renaissance medicine

3 July 2023

(0:17 h)

Interview

Stefan Hanß, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Analysing Renaissance recipes
Modern chemistry meets Renaissance medicine

“How did people in the Renaissance use medical recipes? Which ingredients were used and what for? What was their impact on the human body?"

PR Officer Kim König and Research Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius talk to Stefan Hanß about his research project which uses the scientific analysis and historical contextualization of the chemical fingerprints of Renaissance recipe users to offer a new understanding of material cultures, medicine, and the history of the body in early modern Germany. 

Stefan Hanß is currently a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. In August he will take up a new position as Professor of Early Modern History and in September he will start as Deputy Director and Scientific Lead of the John Rylands Research Institute in Manchester.

Don’t miss his accompanying GHIL Lecture on ‘The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Medicine and the Body in the German Material Renaissance’