{"id":6969,"date":"2016-04-27T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=6969"},"modified":"2020-07-05T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:41:02","slug":"gillis-hogan-2016-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/gillis-hogan-2016-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillis-Hogan (2016 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Samuel Gillis\u2013Hogan<br \/>\n(<em>University of Saskatechewan<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>&#8220;Stars in the Hand:<br \/>\nThe Infusion of Astrology in Chiromancy&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract of Paper<br \/>\nPresented at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2016)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session on<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Magic on the Page:\u00a0 Transmission and Representation of Magic&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nSponsored by the <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<br \/>\nand the Societas Magica<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganized by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 S\u00e1ndor Chardonnens<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2016-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Congress Program<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2016-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>[<em>Published on 27 April 2016, with an update<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Based on the crude and simplistic nature of the earliest manuscript as well as other circumstantial evidence, Charles Burnett has suggested that Chiromancy derived from popular traditions and was taken up by learned writers starting in the 12th century (\u201cThe Earliest Chiromancy in the West,\u201d 191). By the later middle ages chiromancy had become a complex learned system. As a result, the study of this art gives us the unusual opportunity to examine the development of learned divinatory method.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of this development is the infusion of astrology. This paper will explore this aspect of chiromancy\u2019s history through a survey of British manuscripts from the twelfth-century <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190404151230\/http:\/\/trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk\/james\/viewpage.php?index=1229\">Eadwine Psalter<\/a> to the fifteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography:<\/p>\n<p>Charles S. F. Burnett, \u201cThe Earliest Chiromancy in the West,\u201d <em>Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes<\/em>, 50 (1987): 189\u2013195,<br \/>\navailable with subscription via <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/75132<\/span> .<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Gillis\u2013Hogan (University of Saskatechewan) &#8220;Stars in the Hand: The Infusion of Astrology in Chiromancy&#8221; Abstract of Paper Presented at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2016) Session on &#8220;Magic on the Page:\u00a0 Transmission and Representation of Magic&#8221; Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and the Societas Magica Organized by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13884,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6969\/revisions\/13884"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}