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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, Canada), "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, Canada), "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"

    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 the Societas Magica website:
    http://brindedcow.umd.edu/socmag/.

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