\nrevised with Schedule Assignments<\/a> on 1 February, with updates;
\nissued with Program Updates plus Abstracts of Papers<\/strong><\/a> on 7 April, also with updates;
\nand now issued here on 23 May 2015 with the 2015 Congress Report<\/strong><\/em>]<\/p>\n
![\"Corbel](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Corbel-head-with-handlebar-mustache-on-Le-Pont-Neuf-209x300.png\")
<\/a>Photography by Ilya V. Sverdlov<\/p><\/div>\n
For the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/strong><\/a>, the Research Group had 2 sponsored and 3 co-sponsored Sessions. They build, in part, upon our 2014 Congress<\/strong><\/a> in our Anniversary Year.\u00a0 The aims of the 2015 sessions are described in our 2015 Congress Call for Papers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n As before, we co-sponsored sessions with the Societas Magica<\/strong><\/a> (since 2006) and with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida<\/strong><\/a> (since 2014). Like last year, we sponsored a celebratory Reception \u2014 now with both the Societas Magica<\/strong> and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n For the first time, our Business Meeting was open to all and listed in the Congress Schedule<\/strong>, which presents the Program as a whole (see below).<\/p>\n Here we announce the events as accomplished, with their Posters. We also post the Abstracts of Papers.\u00a0 A new Feature of our website this year are the The photographs of corbel heads from Le Pont Neuf in Paris are reproduced here by permission, for which we thank Ilya V. Sverdlov<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Organizer: Valerio Cappozzo (Department of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi)<\/p>\n This session resumes a theme explored in the session on ‘Dream Books’, co-sponsored with the Societas Magica, at the 2012 Congress<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Presider: Claire Fanger (Department of Religion, Rice University)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. Boyda Johnstone (Department of English, Fordham University) 2. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 S\u00e1ndor Chardonnens (Department of English Language and Culture, Radboud University Nijmegen) 3. Valerio Cappozzo <\/p>\n Focus<\/p><\/div>\n The Program Booklet for this Session, including a photograph of a Dream Alphabet in vernacular Italian, reproduced with permission of MiBACT, was circulated at the Session. \u00a0Edited by Mildred Budny and Valerio Cappozzo, and laid out in RGME Bembino<\/a>, the Booklet is available freely for download here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photography by Ilya V. Sverdlov<\/p><\/div>\n *****<\/p>\n Organizers: Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) and Sarah M. Anderson (Princeton University)<\/p>\n Presider: David Porreca (University of Waterloo)<\/span> Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. David Sorenson (Allen G. Berman, Numismatist) This illustrated Paper is now published by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (2016).\u00a0 You may download it freely here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2. Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) The Session, and the Reception (see below) included a demonstration of some original materials under discussion.<\/p>\n Friday, 15 May, 12:00 \u2013 1:00 p.m<\/p>\n The 2015 Business Meeting Agenda is available<\/a>.\u00a0 Its goals were and are to consider our activities for 2014 & 2015, the plans for future activities for 2015, 2016 & beyond (including programs, publications, promotion, and recruiting), and the suggestions emerging from these discussions.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Friday, 15 May, 9:00 \u2013 12:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Societas Magica<\/strong>, The success of our Anniversary Reception<\/strong><\/a> co-sponsored with the Societas Magica last year led us to plan a similar event this year, now also with the Index of Christian Art, our co-sponsor frequently for events. Those events include several events in our 2014 Anniversary Year: a Symposium<\/strong><\/a> in May, a Colloquium<\/strong><\/a> in November, and a Seminar<\/strong><\/a> in December.<\/p>\n ****<\/p>\n Photography by Ilya V. Sverdlov<\/p><\/div>\n Session co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence <\/strong>and Organizers: Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) and Florin Curta (Department of History, University of Florida)<\/p>\n Presider: Vlada Stankovi\u0107 (Faculty of Philosophy, \u0423\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0437\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0442 \u0443 \u0411\u0435\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0434\u0443<\/span> \/ Univerzitet u Beogradu<\/span>, Serbia, and School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)<\/p>\n Presenters: 2. Grischa Vercamer (Department of History and Cultural Studies, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany) 3. Robert Anton\u00edn (Department of History, Ostravsk\u00e1 Univerzita, Czech Republic) 4. Rebecca Huffman (Department of English, University of Michigan) *****<\/p>\n Session co-sponsored by the Societas Magica<\/strong> and Session 416 (Schneider 1130): Saturday 1:30\u20133:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Organizer: Jason E. Roberts (Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin)<\/p>\n Presider: Marla Segol (Institute for Jewish Thought and Heritage, State University of New York at Buffalo)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n 1. Lea T. Olsan (English and Foreign Languages Emerita, University of Louisiana at Monroe) 2. Alison Harthill (School of History, Archaeology, and Religion, Cardiff University) 3. Collin Brown (Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin) 4. Jason E. Roberts *****<\/p>\n Session co-sponsored by the Societas Magica<\/strong> and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n Organizer: Frank Klaassen (College of Arts and Sciences, University of Saskatchewan)<\/p>\n Presider: Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n Presenters:<\/p>\n [Brett Lawrence Wisniewski did not attend the Congress to present his paper.<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n 1>0. Brett Lawrence Wisniewski (Department of Classics, New York University)<\/span> 2><\/span>1. John Haines (Faculty of Music and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) 3><\/span>2. James Weldon (Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University) 4><\/span>3. Frank Klaassen *****<\/p>\n NOTE: A third Session was Sponsored by the Societas Magica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Organizer: Marla Segol (State University of New York at Buffalo)<\/p>\n Presider: Frank Klaassen (University of Saskatchewan)<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Two more Sessions were sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/strong> at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n Organizer: Florin Curta (University of Florida)<\/p>\n Presider: Florin Curta<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n ‘On the Bright Side’ (Photography by Mildred Budny)<\/p><\/div>\n Before and during the Congress, its Schedule<\/strong> was available as a printed booklet and in downloadable pdf on the Congress website.\u00a0 The Corrigenda<\/strong> for the Congress were posted online, with updates, up to the time of the Congress, and issued in a printed booklet for participants at the Congress.\u00a0 The links to those elements are now out-of-date, so we remove them from this post, and provide a current link.<\/p>\n Revisions to the printed Schedule<\/strong>, including a room change for our Business Meeting, corrections for some titles of papers, a change of presiders for one of our sessions, the withdrawal of one paper, and updates for other elements in our events are listed both here and, to some extent, in the Congress Corrigenda<\/strong>, which were posted online, with updates, to the time of the Congress, and are now incorporated in the archived “50th International Congress on Medieval Studies” (2015)<\/a>, combining both the printed Program and the final set of Corrigenda.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Information about the Congress as a whole appears here<\/strong><\/a>. Information and updates for our events also appear on the Research Group’s Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a>. Please visit us there, too.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n P.S. Our very own multi-lingual font Bembino<\/strong><\/a>, which you see in place on this site, is designed to respect and to reflect our international associations, interests, and contributors.<\/p>\n You can download Bembino for FREE here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n We are preparing an updated version of the font, to include recent requests for astrological and related symbols. A preview of some specimens appears here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n You could sign up for our RGME-Newsletter and information about our activities here<\/strong><\/a>. Please stay in touch!<\/p>\n
\nIndexed lists of the Authors of Abstracts<\/strong><\/a> for our Congress Sessions
\nsearchable
\nBy Author<\/a> and
\nBy Year<\/a>.<\/p>\nI. Sponsored Sessions<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>1. Predicting the Past: Dream Symbology in the Middle Ages<\/h4>\n
\n\u2018Possessed by Dreams: Dream Interpretation Manuals in Late Medieval England\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2018Seeing is Believing: Dream Symbols and their Perception in Medieval Alphabetical Dream Books\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2018A Dictionary for Dream Interpretation: The Somniale Danielis<\/em> in Its Manuscript Sources\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n![\"During](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN0684-Dreams-Session-Discussion-AZO-2015-for-Web.jpg\")
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<\/a>2. Making It or Faking It: The Strange Truths of \u2018False Witnesses\u2019 to Medieval Forms<\/h4>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u2018Semi-Official Counterfeiting: \u201cFalse\u201d Coinage Produced within the French Mints, 1380\u20121422, and What It Tells Us\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"Cover](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/David-Sorenson-Counterfeits-article-cover-with-border-232x300.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2018The Truth Will Out: Verity or Verisimilitude in Pre-Photographic Reproductions\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"Logo](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg\"){kind=logo}
<\/a>*****<\/p>\nII. Business Meeting of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"After](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/After-a-successful-Business-Meeting-15-May-2015-cropped-1024x587.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Invitation](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RGME-Soc-Mag-Reception-2015-Full-Page-with-Fri-date-corrected-done1-232x300.png\")
<\/a>III. Reception<\/h3>\n
\nthe Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>,
\nand the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Four](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Four-Corbel-Heads-1024x472.png\")
<\/a>IV. Co-Sponsored Sessions<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>3. The \u2018Good\u2019, the \u2018Bad\u2019, and the \u2018Ugly\u2019 Ruler: Ideal Kingship in the Middle Ages<\/h4>\n
\n The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/strong> at the University of Florida<\/p>\n
\n1. Gerald Schwedler (Department of History, Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)
\n‘Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden<\/em>:
\nUsurpers\u2019 Deeds and Historians\u2019 Verdicts in Merovingian and Carolingian Chronicles’
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘One Man’s Villain is Another Man’s Hero<\/em>:
\nConcepts Employed by Medieval Historians to Construct the Images of Central European Princes as Good or Bad’
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘Wise as Solomon \/ Cruel as Rehoboam<\/em>:
\nAncient and Biblical Models for Portraying Good and Bad Rulers in Medieval Central Europe’
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘In Search of Rule Models in Saint Erkenwald<\/em> (circa 1386) and Lydgate’s Saints Edmund and Fremund<\/em> (1433)’
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"Logo](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/OrangeBluMEMSWM3-150x60.png\")
<\/a>![\"Participants](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P5160177-Ideal-Kingship-Session-AXO-2015-Group-Portrait-2-cropped-1024x554.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Poster](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-RGME-Societas-Magica-Sessions-Poster-1-Efficacious-Words-232x300.png\")
<\/a>4. Efficacious Words: Spoken and Inscribed<\/h4>\n
\nthe Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2018Four Approaches to the Power of Words\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2018Magic, Prayer, and the Power of Words\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2018Mid uuorrdun endi mid uuercun<\/em>: The Introduction of Christian Holy Words into Germanic Folk Prayers and Charms\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2018The Power of God’s Name and the Problem of God’s Favor: A Diachronic Examination of the Tradition(s) of Solomonic Magic\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"P5160185](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/P5160185-Discussion-after-AZO-Magic-Session-2015-1024x691.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Poster](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-RGME-Societas-Magica-Sessions-Poster-2-Magic-Sung-Spoken-Inscribed-Printed1-232x300.png\")
<\/a>5. Magic Sung, Spoken, Inscribed, and Printed<\/h4>\n
\n \u2018Voces Magicae<\/em> in Greek Magical Papyri: Performance, Literacy, and Authority\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u2018Medieval Astrological Songs\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘Magical Anxieties: Problems with Magic in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIII.B.29\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘How Print Changed Magic: \u00a0The Case of Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft<\/em>‘<\/p>\nMateriality and Magic<\/h4>\n
The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: New Advances in Avar Archaeology (I and II)<\/h4>\n
![\"'Sunny](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Flower-Pot-outside-Eicher-Lefevre-at-AZO-2015-1024x768.png\")
<\/a>About the Record<\/h3>\n
Future Congress Activities<\/h3>\n
\nWe now begin to prepare for the 2016 Congress. For example, the Call For Papers<\/a> has been issued and completed, with the next steps of preparation progressing in hand. Updates appear in our blog on the International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Masthead](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-300x86.png\")
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