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Co-sponsored Conference Sessions

Since 2006, the Research Group co-sponsors Sessions with the Societas Magica at The International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

  • Codicological Contexts for Works of Magic, I and II, organized by Claire Fanger, held at the 41st International Congress in May 2006.
    • Victoria Duroff (University of Toronto), "New Genre or Old Corruption?  The Two Versions of a Medieval Hebrew Magic Manual"

    • Lea Olsan (University of Louisiana - Monroe), "The Healer and the Book:  Rituals in Late Medieval Remedy Books"

    • Don C. Skemer (Princeton University Library), "Magical Texts in Physical Context:  The Codicology of a Thirteenth-Century Amulet"

    • John Haines (University of Toronto), "A Twelfth-Century Treatise on Esoteric Shorthand in Its Manuscript Context"

    • Jan Veenstra (Rijksuniversiteet Gronigen), "The Fortunes of a Book:  Berengarius Ganellus's Summa sacre magica (Berlin Staatsbibliothek, MS Germ. Fol. 903"

    • Christopher Phillips (University of Saskatchewan), "The Syve will Turne Rounde":  Reclaiming Ritual Magic in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Additional MS B.1."

  • Magic and the Holy Book, organized by Claire Fanger and Mildred Budny, held at the 42nd International Congress in May 2007.
    • David Porreca (University of Waterloo, Ontario), "Biblical Authority in the Malleus Maleficarum:  Sacred Text in Support of a Radical Agenda"

    • Kathryn LaFevers Evans (Independent Scholar, Ojai, California), "De Magia Naturali and Quncuplex Psalterium by Jacques Lefevres detaples:  Kabbalah as Biblical Magic"

    • Edgar Francis IV (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Maine), "Qur'anic Symbols and Influence in the Corpus of Ahmad ibn Ali al Buni (d. 622 A.H. / 1225 C.E.)"
  • Consecrated Books / Books as Relics, organized by Katelyn Mesler (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois), held at the 43rd International Congress in May 2008.
    • Frank Klaasen (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon), "Solomon's Books and Early Modern Science in Humphrey Gilbert's Spirit Operations"

    • John Haines (University of Toronto), "On Ligaturae and Their Properties:  A Meeting of Magic and Music"

    • Claire Fanger (Societas Magica), ˜The Artist and the Consecrated Book:  The Liber Florum in Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. M I 24"
  • Medieval Magic Manuscripts in Use, organized by Amelia Carr and held at the 44th International Congress in May 2009.
    • John Haines (University of Toronto), “Incantations:  Singing off the Page”

    • Edgar Francis IV (University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point), “The Printed, Popular, and Problematic Manuscripts of a Medieval Muslim Magician:  Issues in the Study of Shams al-ma’arif and Other Writings Attributed to al-Buni”

    • David Porreca (University of Waterloo), “At the Cutting Edge:  The Use of Weapons in Magical Spells:  A Comparison of the PGM, the Picatrix, and the Munich Handbook”

    Abstracts for this session's papers are published.

  • I.  Magic in its Manuscript Context, organized by Amelia Carr and held at the 45th International Congress in May 2010.
    • Laura Mitchell (University of Toronto), “A Household Approach to Magic:  Charms in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 1081”

    • Claire Fanger (Rice University, Houston, Texas), “Use of Mysterious Symbols in the Liber Florum Old Compilation (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS liturg. 160”
    • Elizabeth I. Wade-Sirabian (University of Wisconsin - Oskosh), “Fashionable Magic:  Caracters and Ciphers in Conrad Buitzruss's Compendium (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 671)”
  • II.  Ciphers, Codes, and Mysterious Symbols:  Manuscript Evidence, organized by Amelia Carr and held at the 45th International Congress in May 2010.

    • Jen Reid (Universiteit van Amsterdam), “Encoding, Decoding, and the Milieu of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus”

    • Marla Segol (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York), “Angelic Alphabets:  What Do They Mean?”
    • Benedek Láng (Budapesti Muszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem), “Outdated Cipher-Systems in Magic Texts”

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    Information about our future Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Sessions appears on our page for current plans for the Research Group at the International Medieval Congress.

    The contents of all sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by the Societas Magica are listed on its website:
    http://www.societasmagica.org.

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    In 2009 we co-sponsored an inaugural Session with the new organization MEARCSTAPA.

  • Monstrous Production and Reproduction, organized by Asa Mittman.  The omission of one sponsor’s name in the Congress Program is corrected in the Congress Corrigenda and here.
    • Marcus Hensel (University of Oregon), “Nat He Þara Goda:  Weapons and the Grendelkin’s Status as Monsters”

    • Karma de Gruy (Emory University), “Unnatural Births:  Statan’s Insceafte in Solomon and Saturn II”

    • Carola Dwyer (University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign), “Kissed by a Monster:  Blonde Esmerée as a Grotesque Woman of Power”

    Abstracts for these papers appear on the MEACSTAPA website:  http://medievalmonsters.blogspot.com.

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