At the 2006 Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong> not only sponsored one session, but also, for the first time, co-sponsored sessions with another organization, the Societas Magica<\/a>.<\/p>\n This collaboration arose from the introduction at the previous year’s Congress<\/a> 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.\u00a0 Over time, as the collaboration continued across the years, as reported, for example, in our Congress Archive<\/a>, it remains clear that this collaboration makes long-term sense.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Organizers:\u00a0 Asa Simon Mittman<\/strong> (Arizona State University) and Brian Golding<\/strong> (University of Southampton)<\/p>\n Presider:\u00a0 Mildred Budny<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n \u00a9The British Library Board, Royal MS 13 B VIII, folio 1r, with the opening of Gerald’s ‘Topographia Hiberniae’. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n Organizer:\u00a0 Claire Fanger<\/strong> (Independent Scholar, Societas Magica)<\/p>\n Presider:\u00a0 Mildred Budny<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n The full 2007 Congress<\/strong> program is archived as 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Societas Magica<\/strong> sessions are listed as Sessions Sponsored by the Societas Magica at the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies May 4\u20137, 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nI.\u00a0 Session sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/a>1.\u00a0 “The Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales”<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
\n“The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n<\/strong> “Gerald of Wales and the Manuscript(s) of the Speculum ecclesie<\/em>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n<\/strong>“Response:\u00a0 Gerald of Wales and His World View”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\u00a9The](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Royal-MS-13-B-VIII-folio-1r-cropped.png\")
<\/a>II.\u00a0 Sessions co-sponsored by the Societas Magica
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<\/a>2<\/strong>\u20123.\u00a0 “Codicological Contexts for Works of Magic, Parts I and II”<\/strong><\/h3>\nPart I<\/h3>\n
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\n“New Genre or Old Corruption?\u00a0\u00a0The Two Versions of a Medieval Hebrew Magic Manual”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“The Healer and the Book:\u00a0\u00a0Rituals in Late Medieval Remedy Books”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“Magical Texts in Physical Context:\u00a0\u00a0The Codicology of a Thirteenth-Century Amulet”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPart II<\/h3>\n
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\n“A Twelfth-Century Treatise on Esoteric Shorthand in Its Manuscript Context”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“The Fortunes of a Book:\u00a0\u00a0Berengarius Ganellus’s Summa sacre magica<\/em> (Berlin Staatsbibliothek, MS Germ. Fol. 903)”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“The Syve will Turne Rounde<\/em>“:\u00a0\u00a0Reclaiming Ritual Magic in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Additional MS B.1.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"Front](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShelfLife-1-Cover-with-border-116x150.png\")
<\/a>A Review of the book, Binding Words:\u00a0 Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages<\/em><\/strong>,<\/a> (2006), which emerged from Don C. Skemer’s long-term research on the subject reported in his Paper, appears in the Bulletin<\/strong> of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, ShelfLife<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, 1 (Winter 2006), page 35.<\/p>\n