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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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2016 Congress Program

January 11, 2016 in Business Meeting, Conference Announcement, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Reception

51st International Congress on Medieval Studies

12–15 May 2016

Program

[Published on 11 January 2016, with updates]

After the completion of the 2016 Congress Call for Papers, which described the aims of the sessions, and the Congress Planning, which reported the Sessions selected by the Congress Committee, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence advances with the planning for its 4 sponsored and co-sponsored sessions for the next International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Now we announce the programs. The Congress Schedule reveals the time- and room-assignments. Also, we begin to publish Abstracts of the papers, as their authors might wish.

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The next Congress will be the eleventh year of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica, the third year of co-sponsorship with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, and the second year of co-sponsorship with the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.

Our 2014 and 2015 sessions and receptions with these organizations are illustrated in the 2014 Congress Report and 2015 Congress Report. The history of our sponsorships and co-sponsorships at the Congress is recorded for our Sponsored Sessions and Co-Sponsored Congress Sessions, and in our blog.

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Tags: Balkan Studies, Byzantine Studies, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, History of Magic, History of Paper, History of the Crusades, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, Medieval Studies, Medieval Writing Materials, Mirror as Image, Mirror as Other, Ottoman Studies, Parchment making, Societas Magica
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2016 Congress Call for Papers

June 29, 2015 in Call for Papers, Conference Announcement, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

Call for Papers

for Sessions Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies

12–15 May

[Updating our Post of 10 June 2015, now with the Call for Papers for Our Sessions on 29 June 2015, and additionally with further updates after the timely links regarding the Congress have become obsolete]

For the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies [“http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html” link no longer valid] at Kalamazoo next May, the Research Group will sponsor and co-sponsor Sessions, as part of our continuing activities at this Congress. For example, at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Research Group had 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). Here we announce the Call for Papers for all our Sessions for the 2016 Congress.

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Tags: Balkan Studies, Byzantine Studies, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Editing Magical Texts, History of Magic, History of Paper, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Medieval Writing Materials, Shaping Identity via the 'Other', Societas Magica, The Late Crusades
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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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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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2011 Congress

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

46th International Congress on Medieval Studies

12–15 May 2011

[First published on our first website on *20 January 2011, with updates]

At this Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence held two sessions, respectively sponsored and co-sponsored, in the fifth year of co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica. As customary, Trustees and Associates of the Research Group participated in the Congress in various capacities.

Here we list the Programs of the sessions, along with Abstracts of Papers, and we publish the first of our Posters ever for such sessions.

The inspiration for the poster came from the generous offer by our session participant David W. Sorenson to give images of manuscripts free of charge for reproduction for such purposes. Thus the poster includes donated images and design, with images courtesy of David Sorenson and with layout in our copyright digital font Bembino, described and downloadable for FREE here: Bembino.

[Update: This ‘first edition’ inaugurated a tradition of illustrated Posters for our Congress Sessions in following years, as recorded in our Congress Activities, as well as for our other Events elsewhere, including Colloquia & Symposia. Since 2014, they are exhibited in our Gallery of Posters on Display.]

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Tags: Archaeology of Manuscripts, Bembino Digital Font, Blythburgh Tablet, Carrara Herbal, Catacombs in Rome, Cyphers, Epigraphs, Ethiopic Manuscripts, History of Paper, Manuscript studies, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval Writing Materials, Mediterrnanean Commerce, Middle English Studies, Monumental Inscriptions, Near Eastern Studies, Oxford MS Bodleian Hatton 56, Sobieski Hours, Societas Magica, Writing materials, Writing Tablets
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An Anniversary Year