2025 International Congress
on Medieval Studies:
Program of RGME Activities
60th ICMS
Thursday through Saturday, 8–10 May 2025
(with Sessions variously
in Person, Online, or Hybrid)
[Posted on 16 January 2025, with updates]
With the shaping of the Program as a whole for the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS), we announce the Program for the Activities sponsored and co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. They comprise sponsored and co-sponsored Sessions of Papers; and our Annual Open Business Meeting at the Congress.
For information about the 2025 Congress overall, see its website.
Los Angeles, Getty Center, Ms. Ludwig XV 7 (83.MR.177), fol. 1. Scipio and Guillaume de Loris Lying in Their Beds Dreaming. Image Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Building upon our successful activities at the 2024 ICMS (see our 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies Report), we prepared for the 2025 ICMS. First we proposed a set of sessions, sponsored and co-sponsored. Then, when they had been accepted by the Congress Committee, we issued the Call for Papers (CFP) for our proposed Sessions. The strength and number of the responses by the due date (15 September 2024) led us to seek, in some cases, two sessions in place of the one which we had proposed.
Now that the Congress Program itself has been scheduled, we can present the Program of our activities, both sponsored and co-sponsored.
We give thanks to our organizers, co-organizers, presenters, respondents, advisors, and the Congress.
RGME @ 2025 ICMS
RGME Activities at the 2025 Congress comprise:
- nine Sessions (Sponsored and Co-Sponsored)
- the RGME Annual Open Business Meeting at the Congress
Societas Magica logo
Four Sessions are our own. Our co-sponsors for ICMS Sessions in 2025 are:
- Societas Magica (with three co-sponsored Sessions)
- Polytheism-Oriented Medievalists of North America (P.-O.M.o.N.A.)
- Postal History at Kalamazoo
Among our co-sponsorships for the Congress over the years, 2025 marks
Year 21 of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica,
Year 4 with P.O.M.o.N.A., and
Year 2 with Postal History at Kalamazoo.
Also, the Session co-sponsored with Postal History at Kalamazoo continues the tradition of our long-term series of RGME Sessions at the ICMS on “Medieval Writing Materials”, which began in 2014. See, for example,
Our 2025 Program
RGME Activities at the 2025 Congress comprise:
Sessions (Sponsored and Co-Sponsored)
and
RGME Annual Open Business Meeting at the Congress
We report these activities activities in their scheduled sequence across the three days of the Congress.
They start on Thursday 8 May, the first day of the Congress, with two sessions flanking our Annual Open Business Meeting, for which lunch is provided through a donation.
One of our sessions takes place on Friday 9 May.
The remaining sessions take place on Saturday 10 May, the last day of the Congress.
Program of RGME Activities
Day 1. Thursday
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 7. Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, Comentum Macrobii Ambrosii in somnium Scipionis. Dated 1469 Feb. 7. Image Public Domain via https://houghtonlib.tumblr.com/post/146944005911/macrobius-ambrosius-aurelius-theodosius-comentum.
1. “Dream Books, Spells, Divination,
Incubation, and Interpretation:
‘Sandalphon, send me a dream’ “
Co-Sponsored with the Societas Magica
and
Polytheistic-Oriented Medievalists of North America
(P.-O.M.o.N.A.)
Session 17 (Congress Program Booklet page 7)
Thursday 8 May 2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Sangren Hall, 3130
(hybrid)
Organized by
Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
Phillip Bernhardt–House (Polytheistic-Oriented Medievalists of North America)
Claire Fanger (Rice University)
Speakers
Phillip Bernhardt–House
“Incubation, Inspiration, Incantation, or Intervention?
The Imbas Forosnai Ritual in Sanas Cormaic as Dream Divinatory Operation”
Leigh Ann Craig (Virginia Commonwealth University)
” ‘The very same ears were thrown away’:
Demons, Diagnostics, and Dream Interpretation in a Thirteenth-Century Miracle Story”
Meghri Doumanian (McGill University)
“Dreams, Anxieties, Magic, and Liturgical Healing in Armenian and Judeo-Arabic Cultures:
The Examples of the Erazahan and the Sefer Pitron Halomot”
2. Lunchtime Open Business Meeting (with lunch provided)
Sponsored by the RGME
Notebook of “Recettes” in French, open at the front with inserted slips. Photography from Private Collection by Mildred Budny. Handlist Number 5.
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Open Business Meeting
Thursday 8 May 2025
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM, Student Center, 2207
Lunch is provided through a donation
(hybrid)
Please register for this Meeting by the RGME Eventbrite Portal for in-person and online attendance. Registration will let us know how many people to expect for the Meeting and enable us to arrange the catering appropriately. The registration form allows you to indicate if you have dietary requirements.
There is no charge to register (apart from the Congress Registration fee). We welcome Voluntary Donations for our nonprofit educational organization powered principally by volunteers.
London, British Library, Harley MS 4431, fol. 4r.Christine de Pisan sits at work writing in an interior accompanied by a dog. France (Paris), c. 1410 – c. 1414. Image via https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/06/christine-de-pizan-and-the-book-of-the-queen.html.
3. “Women and Manuscripts:
Questions of Authorship”
Session
Sponsored by the RGME
Session 63 (Congress Program Booklet, page 22)
Thursday 8 May 2025
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM, Sangren, 3130
(hybrid)
Organized by
Jaclyn A. Reed (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
Speakers
Lisa Templin (Mount St. Vincent University)
” ‘Not soe good as common’:
The Eroticization of the Female Voice in the Margins of
Rachel Speght’s A Mouzell for Melastomas”
Marisa Rose Bordonarou (Western University)
“For the General Good of My Country:
Sugar as a Transcorporeal Means of Liberation and Colonial Subjugation
in Hannah Wooley’s The Queen-Like Closet”
Jacob Lollar (Durham University)
“For the Praise and Glory of the Glorious Woman:
Women in Syriac Manuscripts and Book Culture, and the Attempts to Erase Them”
Faremeh Shahnavaz (Western University)
“Penning with Paint:
Redefining Female Authorship through Lady Anne Clifford’s Visual Autobiography”
[Note: This paper will not be presented.]
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits. Français 835, fol. 1r. Opening of collection of texts by Christine de Pizan. Image via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449047c/f9.item.
4–5. “Grimoires of the Greater West”
(Parts 1–2)
Sessions
Co-sponsored with the Societas Magica
Organizers:
Vajra Regan (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina)
(1) “Multicultural Solomonic Magic:
The Case of the Almandal”
Session 117 (Congress Program Booklet, page 41)
Sangren Hall 4520
Thursday 8 May 2025
3:30–5:00 pm EDT
(in-person)
Speakers
Vajra Regan
“The Liber Almandal of Solomon ans Its Christian Elaborations:
New Evidence from the Manuscripts”
Gal Sofer
“Al-Mandal:
Multicultural Magic and the Quest for an Urtext”
Respondent
David Porreca (University of Waterloo)
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants Only)
Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 14 B 36, fol. 243r: Image image of the almadel or “table of spirits”. Astro-magical texts on paper, circa 1400. Image C.C. BY 4.0, via http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/33754.
(2) “From Arabic and Persian to Hebrew and Latin”
Session 165 (Congress Booklet, page 60)
Sangren Hall 3130
Friday 10:00–11:30 am EDT
(hybrid)
Speakers
Michael Noble (Exeter University)
“The Hidden Secret of Fakhr al-Din Rãzī:
Theurgy as Pre-Mongol Cosmocracy”
Rosario Cornejo (University of Virginia)
“Interpreting Repetition and Variation in the Picatrix and the Lapidario”
Agata Paluch (Frei Universität Berlin)
“Theosophical and Practical Knowledge in European Jewish Grimoires”
Matthew Melvin–Koushki
“Occult Democracy in Persian Grimoires”
6. “Moving the Mail:
Letters, Couriers, and Post Offices in the Medieval World”
Session
Co-Sponsored with Postal History at Kalamazoo
Session 224 (Conference Program Booklet, page 79)
Friday 9 May 2025
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM, Sangren, 4540
(In person)
Organized by
David W. Sorenson (Allan G. Berman, Numismatist)
Speakers
Ralph W. Mathiesen (University of Illinois – Urbana–Champaign)
“Institutionalized Mail Delivery Networks in Early Medieval Europe from the Fourth to Seventh Century”
Eleanor A. Congdon (Youngstown State University)
“Time as a Commodity:
Merchants Tracking of the Spread of ‘News’ in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean”
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants Only)
Private Collection, Courier delivering letter. German translation of Petrarch (1559).
7. “Rending the Veil:
The Rupture of Image and Text
in Medieval Apocalypse Commentaries“
Session
Sponsored by the RGME
Session 336 (Conference Program Booklet, page 116)
Saturday 11 May 2025
10:00 – 11:30 am
Sangren Hall, 4540
(In person)
Organized by
Mildred Budny
Vajra Regan
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 8878, fol. 119v. Image Public Domain, via ark:/12148/btv1b52505441p.
Speakers
Zoey M. Kambour (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
” ‘The Speaking Mouth of Terrible Vastness’:
Visualizing the Fourth Beast of the Apocalypse in Beatus Manuscripts”
[Note: Zoey Kambour will not be able to attend to present her paper.]
Sarah E. Frisbie (Case Western University)
“In terra et mare:
Constructing Cosmos in the Beatus of Saint-Sever”
(Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Ms. Lat. 8878)
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants Only)
New York, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.644, fol. 222v-223r. Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798. Commentary on the Apocalypse (MS M.644). Spain, San Salvador de Tábara, ca. 945. Image via https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/110807.
8–9. “Deviant Images:
Text/Image Relationships in Medieval Manuscripts”
(Parts 1-2)
Pair of Sessions
Sponsored by the RGME
Organized by
Courtney Anne Berg (City University of New York)
London, British Library, Add. MS 62925, fol. 83r detail. Rutland Psalter in Latin, circa 1260, England (London?). Image via https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/marginali-yeah-the-fantastical-creatures-of-the-rutland-psalter.html
(1) Visual Intervention
Session 384 (Congress Program Booklet, page 133)
Saturday 10 May 2025
1:30 – 3:00 pm EDT
Sangren Hall, 4540
(In person)
Speakers
Emmarae Stein (University of Rochester)
“Minor Deviations:
The Interplay of Text and Image in Fifteenth-Century Papal Prophecies”
Gamble Madsen (Monterey Peninsula College)
“Come, See If If You Can—God is Truth:
Approaches to Picturing the Godhead in the Petites Heures de Jean de Berry”
(Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, MS lat. 18014)
Daniel S. Berman (Hunter College, City University of New York)
“Let No One Doubt the Measure:
Conjuring Christ’s Body through Faith and Devotional Action”
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants Only)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. lat. 18014, Annunciation. Illustration by Jacquemart de Hesdin (c. 1355 – c. 1414). Image Public Domain via The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN : 3936122202., Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152716
(2) Sacred/Secular
Session 432 (Congress Program Booklet, page 150)
Saturday, May 10, 2025
3:30 – 5:00 pm EDT
Sangren Hall, 4540
(In person)
Speakers
Kaylin O’Dell (Skidmore College)
“Bidirectional Images:
Visualizing the Soul’s Struggle in the Old English Psychomachia”
Justin M. Sturgeon (University of West Florida)
“Text and Image in René d’Anjou’s Livre des tournois:
Mutually Exegetic Components”
Chloe Peters (University of Toronto)
“Games on the Edge:
Ludic Marginalia on the Borders of a Thirteenth-Century Latin Bible”
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants only)
*****
Update (15 April 2025)
Accessibility
In the light of travel considerations and as a courtesy for our community of participants, the RGME now offers Eventbrite Registration Portals for an online option. It provides the functionality of an interactive RGME Zoom Meeting (not closed Zoom Webinar) for our In-Person Events at the 2025 ICMS which have not been assigned Hybrid functionality for the Congress. Those Hybrid sessions are Sessions 17, 63, and 165. As customary, our Open Business Meetings at the Congress are hybrid.
Access to this online option for our sponsored or co-sponsored in-person events is open to Congress registrants only. We do not charge for this consideration, out of respect for our community. After registration, the RGME (not Eventbrite nor Zoom) will send the Zoom Link shortly before the event.
If you wish to participate online at these events and if you are a Congress registrant, please register by these links.
RGME Open Business Meeting (Thurs 12:00-1:30 pm)
Session 118 (Thurs 3:30 pm)
Session 224 (Fri 1:30 pm)
Session 336 (Sat 10 am)
Session 384 (Sat 1:30 pm)
*****
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Attend our next Events if your timetable allows.
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2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program
April 16, 2025 in Conference, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Manuscript Studies, POMONA, Postal History at Kalamazoo, Societas Magica
2025 International Congress
on Medieval Studies:
Program of RGME Activities
60th ICMS
Thursday through Saturday, 8–10 May 2025
(with Sessions variously
in Person, Online, or Hybrid)
[Posted on 16 January 2025, with updates]
With the shaping of the Program as a whole for the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS), we announce the Program for the Activities sponsored and co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. They comprise sponsored and co-sponsored Sessions of Papers; and our Annual Open Business Meeting at the Congress.
For information about the 2025 Congress overall, see its website.
Los Angeles, Getty Center, Ms. Ludwig XV 7 (83.MR.177), fol. 1. Scipio and Guillaume de Loris Lying in Their Beds Dreaming. Image Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Building upon our successful activities at the 2024 ICMS (see our 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies Report), we prepared for the 2025 ICMS. First we proposed a set of sessions, sponsored and co-sponsored. Then, when they had been accepted by the Congress Committee, we issued the Call for Papers (CFP) for our proposed Sessions. The strength and number of the responses by the due date (15 September 2024) led us to seek, in some cases, two sessions in place of the one which we had proposed.
Now that the Congress Program itself has been scheduled, we can present the Program of our activities, both sponsored and co-sponsored.
We give thanks to our organizers, co-organizers, presenters, respondents, advisors, and the Congress.
RGME @ 2025 ICMS
RGME Activities at the 2025 Congress comprise:
Societas Magica logo
Four Sessions are our own. Our co-sponsors for ICMS Sessions in 2025 are:
Among our co-sponsorships for the Congress over the years, 2025 marks
Year 21 of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica,
Year 4 with P.O.M.o.N.A., and
Year 2 with Postal History at Kalamazoo.
Also, the Session co-sponsored with Postal History at Kalamazoo continues the tradition of our long-term series of RGME Sessions at the ICMS on “Medieval Writing Materials”, which began in 2014. See, for example,
Our 2025 Program
RGME Activities at the 2025 Congress comprise:
Sessions (Sponsored and Co-Sponsored)
and
RGME Annual Open Business Meeting at the Congress
We report these activities activities in their scheduled sequence across the three days of the Congress.
They start on Thursday 8 May, the first day of the Congress, with two sessions flanking our Annual Open Business Meeting, for which lunch is provided through a donation.
One of our sessions takes place on Friday 9 May.
The remaining sessions take place on Saturday 10 May, the last day of the Congress.
Program of RGME Activities
Day 1. Thursday
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 7. Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, Comentum Macrobii Ambrosii in somnium Scipionis. Dated 1469 Feb. 7. Image Public Domain via https://houghtonlib.tumblr.com/post/146944005911/macrobius-ambrosius-aurelius-theodosius-comentum.
1. “Dream Books, Spells, Divination,
Incubation, and Interpretation:
‘Sandalphon, send me a dream’ “
Co-Sponsored with the Societas Magica
and
Polytheistic-Oriented Medievalists of North America
(P.-O.M.o.N.A.)
Session 17 (Congress Program Booklet page 7)
Thursday 8 May 2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Sangren Hall, 3130
(hybrid)
Organized by
Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
Phillip Bernhardt–House (Polytheistic-Oriented Medievalists of North America)
Claire Fanger (Rice University)
Speakers
Phillip Bernhardt–House
“Incubation, Inspiration, Incantation, or Intervention?
The Imbas Forosnai Ritual in Sanas Cormaic as Dream Divinatory Operation”
Leigh Ann Craig (Virginia Commonwealth University)
” ‘The very same ears were thrown away’:
Demons, Diagnostics, and Dream Interpretation in a Thirteenth-Century Miracle Story”
Meghri Doumanian (McGill University)
“Dreams, Anxieties, Magic, and Liturgical Healing in Armenian and Judeo-Arabic Cultures:
The Examples of the Erazahan and the Sefer Pitron Halomot”
2. Lunchtime Open Business Meeting (with lunch provided)
Sponsored by the RGME
Notebook of “Recettes” in French, open at the front with inserted slips. Photography from Private Collection by Mildred Budny. Handlist Number 5.
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Open Business Meeting
Thursday 8 May 2025
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM, Student Center, 2207
Lunch is provided through a donation
(hybrid)
Please register for this Meeting by the RGME Eventbrite Portal for in-person and online attendance. Registration will let us know how many people to expect for the Meeting and enable us to arrange the catering appropriately. The registration form allows you to indicate if you have dietary requirements.
There is no charge to register (apart from the Congress Registration fee). We welcome Voluntary Donations for our nonprofit educational organization powered principally by volunteers.
London, British Library, Harley MS 4431, fol. 4r.Christine de Pisan sits at work writing in an interior accompanied by a dog. France (Paris), c. 1410 – c. 1414. Image via https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/06/christine-de-pizan-and-the-book-of-the-queen.html.
3. “Women and Manuscripts:
Questions of Authorship”
Session
Sponsored by the RGME
Session 63 (Congress Program Booklet, page 22)
Thursday 8 May 2025
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM, Sangren, 3130
(hybrid)
Organized by
Jaclyn A. Reed (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
Speakers
Lisa Templin (Mount St. Vincent University)
” ‘Not soe good as common’:
The Eroticization of the Female Voice in the Margins of
Rachel Speght’s A Mouzell for Melastomas”
Marisa Rose Bordonarou (Western University)
“For the General Good of My Country:
Sugar as a Transcorporeal Means of Liberation and Colonial Subjugation
in Hannah Wooley’s The Queen-Like Closet”
Jacob Lollar (Durham University)
“For the Praise and Glory of the Glorious Woman:
Women in Syriac Manuscripts and Book Culture, and the Attempts to Erase Them”
Faremeh Shahnavaz (Western University)
“Penning with Paint:
Redefining Female Authorship through Lady Anne Clifford’s Visual Autobiography”
[Note: This paper will not be presented.]
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits. Français 835, fol. 1r. Opening of collection of texts by Christine de Pizan. Image via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449047c/f9.item.
4–5. “Grimoires of the Greater West”
(Parts 1–2)
Sessions
Co-sponsored with the Societas Magica
Organizers:
Vajra Regan (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina)
(1) “Multicultural Solomonic Magic:
The Case of the Almandal”
Session 117 (Congress Program Booklet, page 41)
Sangren Hall 4520
Thursday 8 May 2025
3:30–5:00 pm EDT
(in-person)
Speakers
Vajra Regan
“The Liber Almandal of Solomon ans Its Christian Elaborations:
New Evidence from the Manuscripts”
Gal Sofer
“Al-Mandal:
Multicultural Magic and the Quest for an Urtext”
Respondent
David Porreca (University of Waterloo)
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants Only)
Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 14 B 36, fol. 243r: Image image of the almadel or “table of spirits”. Astro-magical texts on paper, circa 1400. Image C.C. BY 4.0, via http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/33754.
(2) “From Arabic and Persian to Hebrew and Latin”
Session 165 (Congress Booklet, page 60)
Sangren Hall 3130
Friday 10:00–11:30 am EDT
(hybrid)
Speakers
Michael Noble (Exeter University)
“The Hidden Secret of Fakhr al-Din Rãzī:
Theurgy as Pre-Mongol Cosmocracy”
Rosario Cornejo (University of Virginia)
“Interpreting Repetition and Variation in the Picatrix and the Lapidario”
Agata Paluch (Frei Universität Berlin)
“Theosophical and Practical Knowledge in European Jewish Grimoires”
Matthew Melvin–Koushki
“Occult Democracy in Persian Grimoires”
6. “Moving the Mail:
Letters, Couriers, and Post Offices in the Medieval World”
Session
Co-Sponsored with Postal History at Kalamazoo
Session 224 (Conference Program Booklet, page 79)
Friday 9 May 2025
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM, Sangren, 4540
(In person)
Organized by
David W. Sorenson (Allan G. Berman, Numismatist)
Speakers
Ralph W. Mathiesen (University of Illinois – Urbana–Champaign)
“Institutionalized Mail Delivery Networks in Early Medieval Europe from the Fourth to Seventh Century”
Eleanor A. Congdon (Youngstown State University)
“Time as a Commodity:
Merchants Tracking of the Spread of ‘News’ in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean”
Private Collection, Courier delivering letter. German translation of Petrarch (1559).
7. “Rending the Veil:
The Rupture of Image and Text
in Medieval Apocalypse Commentaries“
Session
Sponsored by the RGME
Session 336 (Conference Program Booklet, page 116)
Saturday 11 May 2025
10:00 – 11:30 am
Sangren Hall, 4540
(In person)
Organized by
Mildred Budny
Vajra Regan
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 8878, fol. 119v. Image Public Domain, via ark:/12148/btv1b52505441p.
Speakers
Zoey M. Kambour (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
” ‘The Speaking Mouth of Terrible Vastness’:
Visualizing the Fourth Beast of the Apocalypse in Beatus Manuscripts”
[Note: Zoey Kambour will not be able to attend to present her paper.]
Sarah E. Frisbie (Case Western University)
“In terra et mare:
Constructing Cosmos in the Beatus of Saint-Sever”
(Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Ms. Lat. 8878)
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants Only)
New York, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.644, fol. 222v-223r. Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798. Commentary on the Apocalypse (MS M.644). Spain, San Salvador de Tábara, ca. 945. Image via https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/110807.
8–9. “Deviant Images:
Text/Image Relationships in Medieval Manuscripts”
(Parts 1-2)
Pair of Sessions
Sponsored by the RGME
Organized by
Courtney Anne Berg (City University of New York)
London, British Library, Add. MS 62925, fol. 83r detail. Rutland Psalter in Latin, circa 1260, England (London?). Image via https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/marginali-yeah-the-fantastical-creatures-of-the-rutland-psalter.html
(1) Visual Intervention
Session 384 (Congress Program Booklet, page 133)
Saturday 10 May 2025
1:30 – 3:00 pm EDT
Sangren Hall, 4540
(In person)
Speakers
Emmarae Stein (University of Rochester)
“Minor Deviations:
The Interplay of Text and Image in Fifteenth-Century Papal Prophecies”
Gamble Madsen (Monterey Peninsula College)
“Come, See If If You Can—God is Truth:
Approaches to Picturing the Godhead in the Petites Heures de Jean de Berry”
(Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, MS lat. 18014)
Daniel S. Berman (Hunter College, City University of New York)
“Let No One Doubt the Measure:
Conjuring Christ’s Body through Faith and Devotional Action”
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. lat. 18014, Annunciation. Illustration by Jacquemart de Hesdin (c. 1355 – c. 1414). Image Public Domain via The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN : 3936122202., Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152716
(2) Sacred/Secular
Session 432 (Congress Program Booklet, page 150)
Saturday, May 10, 2025
3:30 – 5:00 pm EDT
Sangren Hall, 4540
(In person)
Speakers
Kaylin O’Dell (Skidmore College)
“Bidirectional Images:
Visualizing the Soul’s Struggle in the Old English Psychomachia”
Justin M. Sturgeon (University of West Florida)
“Text and Image in René d’Anjou’s Livre des tournois:
Mutually Exegetic Components”
Chloe Peters (University of Toronto)
“Games on the Edge:
Ludic Marginalia on the Borders of a Thirteenth-Century Latin Bible”
Register for Online Option (Congress Registrants only)
*****
Update (15 April 2025)
Accessibility
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
*****
Questions? Suggestions?
Send a note to [email protected] or [email protected]
Visit our Social Media:
Join the Friends of the RGME.
Register for our Events by the RGME Eventbrite Collection.
Attend our next Events if your timetable allows.
Consider making a Donation in Funds or in Kind for our nonprofit educational corporation powered principally by volunteers. Your donations and contributions are welcome, and can go a long way. They may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law.
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