2006 Congress

January 1, 2014 in Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

41st International Congress on Medieval Studies

4‒7 May 2006

[First published on our first website on *4 April 2006, with updates here]

At the 2006 Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence not only sponsored one session, but also, for the first time, co-sponsored sessions with another organization, the Societas Magica.

This collaboration arose from the introduction at the previous year’s Congress between the Director of the Research Group (Mildred Budny) and the President of the Societas Magica (Claire Fanger) by Robert Mathiesen, Trustee of the Research Group and co-Founder of the Societas Magica.  Over time, as the collaboration continued across the years, as reported, for example, in our Congress Archive, it remains clear that this collaboration makes long-term sense.

I.  Session sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence

Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (colour version)1.  “The Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales”

Organizers:  Asa Simon Mittman (Arizona State University) and Brian Golding (University of Southampton)

Presider:  Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)

Presenters:

  • Catherine Rooney (Queen’s College, University of Cambridge)
    “The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales”
  • Brian Golding
    “Gerald of Wales and the Manuscript(s) of the Speculum ecclesie
  • Asa Simon Mittman
    “Response:  Gerald of Wales and His World View”
©The British Library Board, Royal MS 13 B VIII, folio 1r, with the opening of Gerald's 'Topographia Hiberniae'. Reproduced by permission. The text, written in double columns, opens with an enlarged, and partly inset, polychrome initial decorated with animal, foliate, and interlace ornament.

©The British Library Board, Royal MS 13 B VIII, folio 1r, with the opening of Gerald’s ‘Topographia Hiberniae’. Reproduced by permission.

II.  Sessions co-sponsored by the Societas Magica
and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence

Societas Magica logo23.  “Codicological Contexts for Works of Magic, Parts I and II”

Organizer:  Claire Fanger (Independent Scholar, Societas Magica)

Presider:  Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)

Part I

  • 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”

Part II

  • 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.”

Front Cover of ShelfLife, The Bulletin of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Number 1 (Winter 2006), including a photograph of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 197B, folio 1 recto. Photograph joint copyright of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College and Mildred Budny.A Review of the book, Binding Words:  Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages, (2006), which emerged from Don C. Skemer’s long-term research on the subject reported in his Paper, appears in the Bulletin of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, ShelfLife, 1 (Winter 2006), page 35.

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The full 2007 Congress program is archived as 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies.

The Societas Magica sessions are listed as Sessions Sponsored by the Societas Magica at the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies May 4–7, 2006.

The full set of the Research Group Activities at the Congress is listed in our Congress Archive.

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