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2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program

November 26, 2017 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Announcements, Conference, Conference Announcement, Index of Medieval Art, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Uncategorized

Sessions & Events
Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
10–13 May 2018

[Published on 26 November 2017, with updates]

With the completion of our Call for Papers for the 2018 Congress, we prepared the Programs for our Sessions and other Events (Reception and Open Business Meeting included). With the turn of the New Year, as customary, we began to post the Abstracts of Papers and Response, as their Authors permit.

Now, with the publication of the full Congress Program in a “sneak preview” at the beginning of February, the allocated times and locations become known. Also, more Abstracts join our Announcement here.

Background and Foreground

The course of announcements and reports about the 2018 Congress may follow the sequence of previous years. For example, for the 2017 Congress, we announced the Plans and the Call for Papers (which has a deadline of 15 September), the Program (once the Sessions are designed from the responses to the Call for Papers), then an updated version or versions of the Program with the addition of the Abstracts and other news (same URL), and, once the Congress is accomplished, a Report as well as, it may be, a Report Behind the Scenes.

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As in recent years, we co-sponsor Sessions with the Societas Magica (3 Sessions), and we co-sponsor a Reception.

Also, like the 2017 Congress, we plan for

an Open Business Meeting and
a Reception, co-sponsored with The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University.

It will be the 13th year of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica, and our 3rd year of co-sponsorship with the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, now (since 2017) known as the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University.

As usual, we aim to publish the Abstracts for the accepted Papers as the preparations for the Congress advance. Abstracts for previous Congresses appear in the Congress Abstracts, listed by Year and by Author.]

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Tags: 'En la maison dedalus', Alfonso X of Castile, Arabic and Persian Occult Texts, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms Latin 17897, Celtic Magic Texts, Games in the Middle Ages, Horace Ode 4.10, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Islamicate occult-scientific manuals, Labyrinths in the Medieval World, Libro de los jeugos, Manuscript studies, Picatrix, Saint Gall Cod. Sang. 1395, Saint Gall Incantations
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2017 M-MLA Panel Report

November 14, 2017 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Announcements, Conference, Conference Announcement, Manuscript Studies, Reports

Chandelier and Ceiling Murals at the Netherland Plaza Hotel. Photography by Mildred Budny.

“Seeing the Light”. Chandelier and Ceiling Murals at the Netherland Plaza Hotel.

Artists, Activists, and Manuscript Evidence

Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Permanent Panel
at the
Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA)

2017 Convention
Cincinnati, Ohio
November 9-12, 2017

Our 2017 Panel

With the accomplishment of the 2017 M-MLA Convention in Cincinnati, we happily report the Permanent Panel which the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence sponsored, in the second year of its participation at the Convention. As this participation continues to build, we create a Page devoted to the Panels at the M-MLA Convention, along with our many Activities and Events.

Like last year’s pair of sponsored Panels, described in our 2016 M-MLA Report, this year’s Panel was expertly organized by our Associate Justin Hastings of Loyola University Chicago, institutional host of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

The plan for our 2017 Panel arose in responding to the theme chosen for the 2017 Convention, “Artists and Activists”. Naturally, we selected the themes of “Artists, Activists, and Manuscript Evidence”, which might include, or also include, printed books and other forms of written materials. Our Call for Papers invited contributions for multiple subjects and approaches, including textual, art-historical, codicological, and palaeographical, which might center upon facets, or stages, of the material evidence of manuscripts in their travels across time and space. The variety of responses to the Call shaped the Program for the Panel, as announced in the Convention Program Book and for our 2017 M-MLA Panel. Updates for our Announcement soon provided the Abstracts for the 3 papers, also with some images.

The time has come for the Report. You are Here.

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Tags: Cincinnati Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, Conrad Weiser, Coronation Roll of Edward IV, Free Library of Philadelphia, Iriquois Nation, Manuscript studies, Midwest Modern Language Association, Netherland Plaza Hotel, Otto Ege, Yogi Berra
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2017 Congress Report

May 17, 2017 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Announcements, Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the
52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
11–14 May 2017

We report our Activities Accomplished

The time has happily come to report the successful accomplishment of this year’s Activities of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at the 2017 Congress.

Alcove Beside Entrance to Garneau at AZO 2017

Our Activities there mostly corresponded with their plans announced in the complete official Schedule for the 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies, as well as in our posted (and updated) 2017 Congress Program for our 5 co-sponsored Sessions and other Activities — with some adjustments closer to the time. Some changes were known in time to report to the published Corrigenda (up to 5 May) for the Congress, and on our website. Others emerged at a last minute, and these changes are noted here.

How We Do It

Upon completion of last year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies, we gave both a 2016 Congress Report and a special Behind the Scenes Report (Also Known As “Doctor Who Done It”). Then we turned to preparing for this year’s Congress.

After our proposals for the 2017 sessions were accepted, our 2017 Call for Papers described the scope and aims of the sessions and invited proposals for their papers for consideration. Next, after the official closure of the Call for Papers on 15 September 2016, we selected the programs of the sessions, submitted them to the Congress Committee, and, in due course, announced these 2017 Congress Preparations. Then, as the full Program for the Congress became announced, we posted the Program for our Presence At The Congress, with some updates as they emerged.

As the preparations for the Congress shifted into that next phase, we also, as customary, posted the Abstracts for the Papers, as their authors permit. (Note that our site conveniently lists the published Abstracts not only for the individual years of the Congress, but also in the Indexes both by Author and by Year. Easy Peasy.)

Thus we invite you to discover, even at a distance across time and space, the subjects, aims, and accomplishments of the presenters at the Sessions. That is, even if You Were Not There, You Could Still Be There. Call it, if you wish, the Potential Power of the Word, as Time and Space Traveller.

Now for our 2017 Congress Report. P.S. Our camera disappeared partway through the Congress. Last sighted on the Friday afternoon in Schneider 1030, during our pair of Sessions co-sponsored with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida. If you happen to have found the camera, we would be glad for the gift of the pictures at the Congress on Days 1 and 2. The rest are secured in copies. Please let us know!

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Tags: Adelaide Bennett Hagems, Business Meeting, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, East Central Europe, History of Magic, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, International Congress on Medieval Studies, last Rulership, Magical Materials, Manuscript studies, Medieval Central Europe, Medieval Hungary, Medieval Rulership, Medieval Tools, Military Orders and Crusades, Plast Rulership, Reception, Richard K. Emmerson, Societas Magica
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A Reused Part-Leaf from Bede’s Homilies on the Gospels

October 30, 2016 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Manuscript Studies

Bede on the Gospel of Mark

Recto of the Part-Leaf

A Part-Leaf from a 14th-Century Large-Format Copy
of Bede’s Homilies on the Gospels
(Perhaps Other Texts Too)
in Double Columns of 26 or More Lines
in Latin,
Perhaps Made in France,
Reused as a Part-Cover for Something Else, Now Discarded & Lost

Yes, we know. Don’t know much about this part-leaf. Why should we bother you?

You might know something, and/or, you might like to know something. (My Kind of Person.)

I’m going ahead on the principle that Something Is Better Than Nothing. (Ever the Optimist. Gotta Hope For Something Good.)

Here Goes.

[Continuing our series on Manuscript Studies, Mildred Budny reports the identification of a reused and cut-down vellum Latin manuscript leaf extracted from a copy of Bede’s Homilies on the Gospels, made probably in the first half of the 14th century, perhaps in France. Identifying the text makes it possible to recognize which side of the leaf was the original recto, and which the verso. And there’s more to tell.]

The extracted and reduced leaf was converted through reuse into part of the cover or wrapper for some volume or other, now unknown. At some point, at least by the year 2016, the part-leaf was removed from that interim position and offered for sale on its own online. It has come to its present owner recently, without record of the provenance of the leaf, or the nature and contents of its former volume, let alone of its original manuscript.

As characteristic for the problems presented by such discarded and commercially transferred medieval manuscript materials, we must resort to examining the evidence of the material itself. Good thing, it may be, that we and other colleagues have some experience with such tasks.

Have a look, for example, at the discoveries reported in our our blog on Manuscript Studies and our colleagues’ contributions to meeting the challenges which dismembered and dispersed fragments pose, as for our 2016 Symposium on Words & Deeds and its downloadable Program Booklet.

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Tags: Aquitaine, Bede, Bede's Homilies on the Gospels, Bede's Homily II Number 6, Bede's Homily XXXVIII, Gregory the Great, Holy Saturday, Lectionary, ledger, Lesquenn, Life of Saint Blaise, Maine-et-Loire, manuscript fragments, Manuscript Fragments Reused in Bindings, Mark 7:31, Mios, Otto Ege MS 14, Terres de Losquonn
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Update for 2016 Symposium Booklet

October 15, 2016 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Announcements

Update:

We have fixed the broken link for downloading the Program Booklet, with Abstracts and Illustrations, for our Symposium in March on “Words & Deeds”, exploring a rich array of subjects. The subjects range from the Late-Antique Theater to Gutenberg, by way of (among others), the Abbey of Saint-Denis, charters, and amulets. For example, we celebrate, and illustrate, recent researches and discoveries among the medieval manuscript remnants from the collection of Otto F. Ege.

The 2016 Symposium Announcement and the 2016 Symposium Report provide additional details.

You may find the Booklet here. Laid out on our copyright font Bembino, it conforms with the principles of our Style Manifesto and celebrates the contributions of experts in various fields of study and interest.

2016 Symposium Program Booklet Cover Page with Border

2016 Symposium Booklet Cover Page

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Tags: "Words & Deeds", 2016 Symposium, Abbey of Saint-Denis, Amulets, Bembino, Charters, Gutenberg Press, Late-Antique Theater, Otto F. Ege, Style Manifesto
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2016 Symposium on ‘Words & Deeds’ Report

June 9, 2016 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Conference, Reception, Reports

Detail of initial from Beinecke leaf from 'Otto Ege Manuscript 35'. Otto Ege Collection, The Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University. Photography by Lisa Fagin Davis. Reproduced by permission.

Otto Ege Collection, The Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University. Photograph by Lisa Fagin Davis.

‘Words & Deeds’ Symposium Report

With the smooth accomplishment of the Symposium on ‘Words & Deeds’ at Princeton University on 25–26 March 2016, it is time for the Report.

As is our custom, the Save-the-Date Announcement and the Poster(s) for the event, as well as the Program, circulated ahead of time (both in paper and online), in stages as they called for updates. They did so, for example, as the Sponsors gathered in number, and as the event initially intended for a day’s span extended into one and one-half days, to accommodate the increasing number of Speakers, Panelists, and Sessions.

[Note: We have now corrected the next link, for the Program Booklet. It should work correctly. If not, please let us know.]

The Program Booklet, containing both the Program and the Abstracts of Papers, made its debut, as is customary, on the day itself in print. In this case, the generous donation of so many images — some of which featured in our post announcing the event — encouraged us to include a greater number and to extend across a larger number of pages than ever before for one of our Symposia. Extraordinary.

Now we publish those materials online. In addition, the happy completion of the Symposium calls for a description of its character, account of certain changes in plan, and a celebration of its enthusiastic dedication of expertise and collegial discourse.

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Tags: Amulets, Book of Hours, Christian Liturgy, Department of Art & Archaeology, Early Modern Studies, Early Printing, Fragmentology, Gutenberg Press, Hortus Deliciarum, Index of Christian Art, Indulgences, Late-Antique Theater, manuscript fragments, Manuscript studies, Mazarine MS 2013, Medieval Documents, Medieval manuscripts, Otto Ege, Otto Ege MS 14, Otto Ege MS 15, Otto Ege MS 35, Otto Ege MS 44, Saint-Denis, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Wax Seals, Yale University
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2016 Congress Report

May 19, 2016 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Business Meeting, Conference, ICMS, Kalamazoo, Reception, Reports

Jesse Meyer demonstrates the squirrel parchment prepared for the Research Group's Session, at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies. 13 May 2016. Photography © Mildred Budny

Show & Tell. Photography by Mildred Budny

51st International Congress on Medieval Studies

12–15 May 2016

Report

[Published on 18 May 2016, with updates]

The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence reports its activities accomplished at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Kalamazoo, Michigan.

After the completion of

our Congress Planning, which reported the Sessions selected by the Congress Committee,
our 2016 Congress Call for Papers, which described the aims of the Sessions, and
our Congress Program, which set forth the schedule for our Sessions and other Activities
(together with the Abstracts of some Papers),

we now Report its achievements. They include the notice of a couple of late changes to the Program of individual Sessions, the unveiling — with the publication here — of both the Posters for our multiple activities at the Congress and an illustrated Program Booklet for a pair of co-sponsored Sessions, and other developments. These publications, as is our practice, are set in our copyright multilingual font Bembino and laid out in accordance with our Style Manifesto. You may view them below.

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Tags: Balkan Studies, Bembino, Business Meeting, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, History of Paper, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, magic in manuscript, Medieval Writing Materials, Parchment making, Reception, Societas Magica
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2015 Congress Report

May 23, 2015 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Business Meeting, Conference, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Reception

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies

14–17 May

[First published with the Announcement of Programs on 6 January 2015, with updates;
revised with Schedule Assignments on 1 February, with updates;
issued with Program Updates plus Abstracts of Papers on 7 April, also with updates;
and now issued here on 23 May 2015 with the 2015 Congress Report]

Corbel Head with handlebar moustache on Le Pont Neuf, Paris. Photograph by Ilya V. Sverdlov, reproduced by permission

Photography by Ilya V. Sverdlov

For the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Research Group had 2 sponsored and 3 co-sponsored Sessions. They build, in part, upon our 2014 Congress in our Anniversary Year. The aims of the 2015 sessions are described in our 2015 Congress Call for Papers.

As before, we co-sponsored sessions with the Societas Magica (since 2006) and with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida (since 2014). Like last year, we sponsored a celebratory Reception — now with both the Societas Magica and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.

For the first time, our Business Meeting was open to all and listed in the Congress Schedule, which presents the Program as a whole (see below).

Here we announce the events as accomplished, with their Posters. We also post the Abstracts of Papers. A new Feature of our website this year are the
Indexed lists of the Authors of Abstracts for our Congress Sessions
searchable
By Author and
By Year.

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Tags: ancient and biblical models for medieval kings, Carolingian Studies, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Dream Books, Dream Interpretation Manuals, Early Medieval Art, Germanic folk prayers, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, Lydgate, Manuscript Photography, Medieval astrological songs, medieval charms, medieval counterfeiting, Medieval Dream Interpretation, medieval forgery, Medieval Kingship, medieval princes in Central Europe, merovingian chronicles, Power of Words, pre-photographic reproduction, Reginald Scot, Saint Erkenwald, Saints Edmund and Fremund, Semi-Official Counterfeiting, Societas Magica, Solomonic Magic, Somniale Danielis, Songs of the Zodiac
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2015 Congress Program Updates Plus Abstracts

April 7, 2015 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Business Meeting, Conference Announcement, Events, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Reception

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies

14–17 May

[First published with the Announcement of Programs on 6 January 2015, with updates; revised with Schedule Assignments on 1 February, with updates; and now issued with Program Changes and the Abstracts of Papers on 7 April, also with updates]

For the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Research Group has 2 sponsored and 3 co-sponsored Sessions. They build, in part, upon the accomplishments of the 2014 Congress in our Anniversary Year, described in the 2014 Congress Report. The aims of the sessions are described in our 2015 Congress Call for Papers.

As before, we co-sponsor sessions with the Societas Magica (since 2006) and with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida (since 2014). Our Business Meeting (open to all) will take place at Friday lunchtime. Like last year, we sponsor a Reception — now with both the Societas Magica and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.

Here we announce the events, with their assigned times and rooms. We also begin to post the Abstracts of Papers.
A new Feature of our website are the indexed lists of the Authors of Abstracts for our Congress Sessions searchable
By Author and
By Year.

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Tags: astrological songs, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Dream Books, dream interpretation, Germanic charms, Greek magical papyri, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, Lydgate, magic in song, manuscript facsimiles, medieval counterfeiting, medieval forgery, Medieval Kingship, pre-photographic reproduction, Reginald Scot, Societas Magica, Solomonic Magic
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2014 Colloquium on “When the Dust Has Settled” Accomplished

November 17, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Anniversary, Bembino, Book & Exhibition Reviews, Conference, Events, Exhibition

We report successful completion of the Colloquium on Friday, 14 November 2014 at Princeton University.

[This post updates both the Announcement for this event (published as Colloquium Announced), and its Colloquium Program.]

Document of Berengarius, detail, unfolded, with concluding date and gathered dust in the fold. Photography © Mildred Budny

“A Settling of Dust”

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