Hannah Bower is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Churchill College, Cambridge and she specializes in medieval literature. Her research focuses on the boundaries, overlaps, and exchanges between literary writings and other, apparently practical or scientific texts. Her PhD, funded by the Wellcome Trust and completed at the University of Oxford, explored the linguistic and imaginative connections between medieval medical recipes and more canonical literary writings. She also completed a six-month secondment fellowship at the London Science Museum which explored the editorial history and reader reception of eighteenth-century medical pamphlets. Her current research investigates the representation of human-made marvels in all kinds of medieval and early modern writings.

In addition to offering a new and welcome look at an understudied corpus of texts, the critical approaches used in this book will be valuable to a more general audience of scholars and students seeking new and challenging ways to evaluate and examine the textual history of the medieval and early modern periods.

• Introduction Literary Fragments 1: The Poetics of Prose Cures 2: Making Verse Remedies Collecting Fragments 3: The Idea of the Remedy Collection Fragments in Play 4: Recipe Time: (Re)Imagining Bodies 5: Experiencing Boundaries Conclusion

Hannah Bower is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Churchill College, Cambridge and she specializes in medieval literature. Her research focuses on the boundaries, overlaps, and exchanges between literary writings and other, apparently practical or scientific texts. Her PhD, funded by the Wellcome Trust and completed at the University of Oxford, explored the linguistic and imaginative connections between medieval medical recipes and more canonical literary writings. She also completed a six-month secondment fellowship at the London Science Museum which explored the editorial history and reader reception of eighteenth-century medical pamphlets. Her current research investigates the representation of human-made marvels in all kinds of medieval and early modern writings.

In addition to offering a new and welcome look at an understudied corpus of texts, the critical approaches used in this book will be valuable to a more general audience of scholars and students seeking new and challenging ways to evaluate and examine the textual history of the medieval and early modern periods.

• Introduction Literary Fragments 1: The Poetics of Prose Cures 2: Making Verse Remedies Collecting Fragments 3: The Idea of the Remedy Collection Fragments in Play 4: Recipe Time: (Re)Imagining Bodies 5: Experiencing Boundaries Conclusion

Hannah Bower is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Churchill College, Cambridge and she specializes in medieval literature. Her research focuses on the boundaries, overlaps, and exchanges between literary writings and other, apparently practical or scientific texts. Her PhD, funded by the Wellcome Trust and completed at the University of Oxford, explored the linguistic and imaginative connections between medieval medical recipes and more canonical literary writings. She also completed a six-month secondment fellowship at the London Science Museum which explored the editorial history and reader reception of eighteenth-century medical pamphlets. Her current research investigates the representation of human-made marvels in all kinds of medieval and early modern writings.

In addition to offering a new and welcome look at an understudied corpus of texts, the critical approaches used in this book will be valuable to a more general audience of scholars and students seeking new and challenging ways to evaluate and examine the textual history of the medieval and early modern periods.

• Introduction Literary Fragments 1: The Poetics of Prose Cures 2: Making Verse Remedies Collecting Fragments 3: The Idea of the Remedy Collection Fragments in Play 4: Recipe Time: (Re)Imagining Bodies 5: Experiencing Boundaries Conclusion