Collegium 2024

[sister_raphael]

In spite of the small numbers this year, the 1300-1600 Collegium was wonderful with a lot of really great workshops and activities! I took a few photos down by the lake, and on the jetty.



My activity centred around the Trotula and Hildegard von Bingen toothcare recipes and re-testing my little canvas stall which I made quite a few years ago to see whether it had any benefit or use these days and was delighted to find that it was very easy to erect and practical size-wise for future things! The toothcare recipes were a lot of fun to make and there were no shortage of willing testers. I'll be doing separate posts about each one of those with the procedures and the verdicts. We all had a lot of feelings about them.

Another very cool activity was the marital trial from a German manuscript, where the husband stands in a hole up to his chest with one arm behind his back and his wife hits him with a sack of rocks. He has a club to defend himself with. We recreated it with sacks of pillows (for insurance reasons and to make it less dangerous) but even with pillows, the rounds of battle were absolutely hilarious, and quite effective.