Talk & Book Launch: Finding the Wayfarer by Emma Rose Barber

Sunday, 25 May 2025 at 13:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

Come to the Holloway on Sunday 25 May at 1pm and find out more about the curious, quirky and colourful little images (marginalia) in the margins of parchment pages in Psalters, made in East Anglia in the early fourteenth century. There are also creatures with two heads on one body, two bodies attached to one head, half humans, bottoms, strange feet and all sorts of anatomical contortions. They are mixed in with images of wayfarers – those who were often disabled, hungry and poor, those who travelled around by foot hoping to rely on the kindness ofstrangers to survive. The reasons for the portrayal of these figures is a mystery, but we can have fun guessing.. were they there to ward off evil spirits, to provide protection, or, as part of a shared kinship with the wider animal Kingdom? Following the publication of her book – Finding the Wayfarer: Physical, Poetic and Spiritual Survival (published on 15 May, 2025), this illustrated talk will be followed by a Q and A and a book signing. T…