2015 Reception

May 30, 2015 in Events, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Reception

Co-Sponsored Reception
at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies

[Published on 11 November 2015]

At the 2015 Congress, we continued the tradition of co-sponsoring a Reception. The tradition began with the 2014 Anniversary Reception, co-sponsored at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies by the Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, to celebrate the anniversaries of both organizations.

And so, we held another Reception at the 2015 Congress, this time co-sponsored by

the Societas Magica
the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and
the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.

The Reception Invitation (shown here) is laid out in the RGME copyright font Bembino, with donated design layout according with our style principles, as expressed in our Style Manifesto (now available in an illustrated version, updated for the Congress). This multilingual digital font is available for download, for FREE: Bembino.

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Tags: Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, Manuscript studies, 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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2015 Congress Events With Programs

January 6, 2015 in Business Meeting, Conference Announcement, 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

[Published on 6 January 2015, with updates
WebEditor’s Note:
Following the conclusion of the Call for Papers and the selection of our events for the 2015 Congress, this Post announces the Programs of our Sessions and our other Activities there. The next Post about our 2015 Congress activities updates this Announcement with details of dates, times, and room assignments for our 2015 Congress Schedules. Further posts provide updates with the Abstracts of Papers and then report the 2015 Congress Events with Programs, along with a few revisions to the Program and with Posters for the Sessions as well as a Program Booklet for one of them.]

For the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Research Group has 2 sponsored and 3 co-sponsored Sessions. 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, before the assignment of their dates and rooms.

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Tags: astrological songs, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Dream Books, dream interpretations, Germanbic charms, Greek magical papyri, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, magic in song, manuscript facsimniles, medieval counterfeiting, medieval forgery, Medieval Kingship, pre-photographic reproduction, Reginald Scot, Societas Magica, Solomonic Magic
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2014 Congress Report

June 25, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies
An Anniversary Year

8-11 May 2014

[Published on 25 June 2014, with updates]

David Sorenson and Donncha MacGabhann examine manuscript materials

Photography by Mildred Budny

Our sessions at the 2014 Congress formed part of the celebrations for our anniversary year. 2014 marks our 15th anniversary as a nonprofit educational organization and our 25th anniversary as an international scholarly society. At the Congress, we both sponsored sessions and co-sponsored sessions, as before, with the Societas Magica, in the eighth year of this co-sponsorship, and, for the first time, with the Center for the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida. As is our practice, various of our Trustees, Officers, and Associates participated in these and other sessions at the Congress.

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Tags: Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Assenids, Book of Kells, Carolingian Manuscripts, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Datini Archives, Early Ottoman Empire, Ethiopic Manuscripts, Gems, History of Canon Law, History of Magic, History of Paper, House Style, Individual Style, Islamic Manuscripts, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscript studies, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval Music, Medieval Writing Materials, Palaeography, Second Bulgarian Empire, Societas Magica, Talismans
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2014 Congress Announced

January 8, 2014 in Anniversary, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies

8-11 May 2014

[Published on our first website on 8 January 2014, with updates there and here]

We announce the program for our sponsored and co-sponsored sessions at the next International Congress on Medieval Studies, when we will celebrate our anniversary year, along with that of one of our co-sponsors, the Societas Magica. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Societas Magica. For the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, it marks our 15th anniversary as a nonprofit educational organization and our 25th anniversary as an international scholarly society. This is the ninth year of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica, and the first year of co-sponsorship with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida. The Events at this Congress celebrate these shared accomplishments.

This year, with the transition to our second, updated website (begun in 2014 and completed in 2015), we began to issue the announcements for a given Congress in a series of blogposts, rather than overwriting its statements, which had left only the final state in view. Here we offer the Congress Announced, with more to come.

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Tags: Abba Gärima Gospels, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Archaeology, Barberini Gospels, Biblical Studies, Book of Kells, Bulgarian Studies, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, City of Tărnovo, Corpus Christi College MS 197B, Datini Archives, Early Medieval Art, Early Ottoman Empire, Ethiopic Manuscripts, Gems, Half-Uncial Script, History of Canon Law, History of Catholicism, History of Magic, History of Music, History of Paper, History of Style, History of the Assenids, History of Watermarks, House Style, Individual Style, Insular Manuscripts, Islamic Manuscripts, Legal History, Manuscript Illumination, McGill University MS MCG 117, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval Studies, Mediterranean Trade, Orthodox Christianity, Palaeography, Polygraphism, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Visual Culture, Second Bulgarian Empire, Silistra, Societas Magica, South-East European History, Talismans, Uncial Script, Workshop Practices, Writing materials
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2013 Congress

January 1, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

48th International Congress on Medieval Studies

9-12 May 2013

[First published on our first website on *6 December 2012, with updates there and here]

With its mission to “apply an integrated, holistic approach to manuscripts and texts in all forms,” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2013, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence held sponsored and co-sponsored sessions examining the material culture, production, and purposes of written records in Western Europe and beyond, and the dispersal, recovery, and study of those works in various forms and widespread locations. Besides these interlinked subjects, the year’s highlighted genres were astrology, the material technology of magic, and the symbolism of water in the Middle Ages.

As before, we co-sponsored sessions with the Societas Magica and King Alfred’s Notebook LLC (respectively in the eighth and second years of this co-sponsorship). Also, three of our Trustees and many of our Officers, and Associates presented papers at the Congress in a variety of sessions.

Here we report the Programs for our Sessions, publish the Abstracts of their Papers, and illustrate the Posters for the Sessions. For the first time, we designed Posters for all of our Sessions at the Congress, Sponsored and Co-Sponsored. At the 2011 Congress we had one Poster, and two Posters at this 2013 Congress for our Sponsored Sessions, all with images courtesy of David W. Sorenson, whose donation of images inspired their creation. The series of Posters now stand exhibited in our Gallery of Posters on Display. The Posters are set in our own multi-lingual digital font Bembino, available for download for FREE here.

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Tags: 'Huntingdonshire Scribe', Adam Pinkhurst, Artists' Recipe Books, Astrology, Bibliothèque nationale de France Ms Latin 16714, British Library Cotton MS Faustina C i, Datini Archive, Digital Imaging, Ducal Charters, History of Paper, Islamic Paper, Late Medieval English Scribes Project, Manipulus Florum, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscript studies, Medieval Manuscript Collecting, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval Music, Medieval Writing Materials, Middle English, Orpiment Pigment, Palaeography, Peter of Blois, Picatrix, Pigment Analysis, Popular Magic, Rhygyfarch ap Sulien, Scribe B - Pynkhurst Debate, Sigillum Dei, Silesia, Societas Magica, Textual Amulet, Thomas of Ireland, Welsh-Latin Poetry
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2012 Congress

January 1, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

47th International Congress on Medieval Studies

10–13 May 2012

[First published on our first website on *15 December 2011, with updates there and here]

Our four Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Sessions at the 2012 Congress examined the material culture and production of written records in Western Europe and beyond, and the dispersal, recovery, and preservation of those works in various forms and widespread locations. Besides these interlinked subjects, our highlighted genre was “Dream Books”, appearing in multiple manifestations in both manuscript and print.

One Session was the second in our series at the Congress on “Medieval Writing Materials”. Its series (2011–2014 and, intended, 2016) is listed in our Sponsored Conference Sessions.

This year, for the first time, after the debut of a single illustrated Poster for one of our sponsored Sessions at the 2011 Congress, an illustrated Posters accompanied both of our own Sponsored Sessions. Since 2015, the full series of illustrated Posters for Congress Sessions and other Events appear in our Gallery of Posters on Display. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Alchemy, Archaeology, Bembino Digital Font, Books of Hours, British Library, Chinese Manuscripts, Codicology, Datini Archives, Dream Books, Dream Divination, Ethiopic Manuscripts, History of Paper, History of Scotland, Islamic Manuscripts, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscripts & Early Printed Books, Medieval & Modern Scribal Practices, Medieval China, Medieval Italian Studies, Medieval Manuscript Collecting, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval Writing Materials, Mediterranean Trade, Middle English, Multi-spectral Imaging, North American Library History, Oneirocritical Manuscripts, Parc Abbey Bible, Pigment Analysis, Societas Magica, Somniale Danielis, Venice
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2009 Congress

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

Research Group Activities at the

44th International Congress on Medieval Studies

7–10 May 2009

[First published on our first website on *20 December 2008, with updates]

For the 2009 Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence sponsored one Session.

It also co-sponsored

one Session with the Societas Magica, in the fourth year of this co-sponsorship, and
one inaugural session with the new organization MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application), supporting its formation which followed our session at the 2008 Congress.
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Tags: al-Bun, Blonde Esmerée, Books of Hours, Ellesmere Manuscript, Francesco da Barberino, Grendelkin, Historyof Magic, Hortus Deliciarum, Incantations, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Magical Spells, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscript studies, Marginalia, MEARCSTAPA, Medieval Muslim Magician, Medieval Studies, Munich Manual of Demonic Magic, Nun's Priest Tale, Papyri Graecae Magicae, Piccatrix, Sarah Celentano Parker, Shams al-ma'aris, Societas Magica, Solomon and Saturn II, Voyerism, Weapons in Magic
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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.

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Tags: Berengarius Ganellus, Berlin Staatsbibliothem MS Germ. Fol. 903, Bodleian Library, Codicology, Esoteric Shorthand, Gerald of Wales, History of Magic, Material Evidence of Manuscripts, Medieval Hebrew Magic Manual, Medieval Manuscipts, Medieval Studies, MS Additional B. 1, Oxford, Remedy Books, Ritual Magic, Societas Magica, Speculum ecclesie, Summa sacra magica, Textual Amulet
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Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies

14–17 May

2015 Congress Program Updates Plus Abstracts

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

14–17 May

2015 Congress Events With Programs

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies
14–17 May

2014 Congress Report

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies
An Anniversary Year

8-11 May 2014

2014 Congress Announced

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies

8-11 May 2014

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48th International Congress on Medieval Studies

9-12 May 2013

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47th International Congress on Medieval Studies

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44th International Congress on Medieval Studies

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at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies

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by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies

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

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies
14–17 May

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies
An Anniversary Year