{"id":14531,"date":"2020-11-27T00:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=14531"},"modified":"2021-08-01T01:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T01:22:45","slug":"bernhardt-house-2021-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/bernhardt-house-2021-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernhardt-House (2021 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phillip A. Bernhardt\u2013House
\n(Skagit Valley College, Whidby Island Campus,
\nand Columbia College, NAS <\/em>Whidby Island Campus<\/em>)
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

(Auto)Biography, Anonymity, and Authority:
\nPrologues and Their Lack in a Selection of Magical Texts
\n(A Response)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Hermes

Hermes Trismegistus. Frontispiece image (Lyons, 1669) via Wikimedia Commons and Wellcome Images.<\/p><\/div>\n

Abstract of Response
\nTo be presented at the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies
\n(Kalamazoo, 2021)<\/h3>\n

Session on “Prologues in Medieval Texts of Magic, Astrology, and Prophecy”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Organized by Vajra Regan<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Co-Sponsored by the RGME and the Societas Magica (for the 2021 Congress)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

(Session Rescheduled from the cancelled 2020 Congress, and partly Rearranged for the 2021 Congress)<\/p>\n

2021 Congress Program Planning<\/a><\/h4>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

A \u201cprologue\u201d is another term for what in English is often called a ‘foreword’ in any written work, and can provide many details about the work.\u00a0 These details are often presented in the exegetical formula of tempus<\/em>, locus<\/em>, persona<\/em>, and causa scribendi<\/em>, but not exclusively nor exhaustively.<\/p>\n

In two cases discussed in this Session, we have directly-identified famous historical or perhaps pseudo-historical magicians to whom magical texts are attributed.<\/p>\n