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\"Initial<\/a>51st International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/h2>\n

12\u201315 May 2016<\/h3>\n

Program<\/h3>\n

[Published on 11 January 2016, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n

After the completion of the 2016 Congress Call for Papers<\/a>, which described the aims of the sessions, and the Congress Planning<\/a>, 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now we announce the programs. The Congress Schedule<\/a> reveals the time- and room-assignments.\u00a0 Also, we begin to publish Abstracts of the papers, as their authors might wish.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Sessions<\/h3>\n

The aims of these sessions are described in the 2016 Congress Call for Papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Logo<\/a>I.\u00a0 Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h3>\n

1.\u00a0 ‘Parchment or Paper? Choosing the Writing Medium in the Era Before the Printing Press’<\/strong><\/p>\n

= Congress Session 212.\u00a0 Friday 10:00\u201311:30 am (Schneider 1355)<\/p>\n

Organizers:\u00a0 Mildred Budny<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
\nand Eleanor Congdon<\/strong> (Department of History, Youngstown State University)<\/p>\n

Presider: David Porreca<\/strong> (Department of Classics, University of Waterloo)<\/p>\n

Presenters:<\/p>\n

Mildred Budny<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
\n\u2018Double Act: Manuscripts Combining Paper and Parchment\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a>, illustrated<\/p>\n

David Sorenson<\/strong> (Allan G. Berman, Numismatist)
\n\u2018Four Cartulary Fragments in Parchment and Paper\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a>, illustrated<\/p>\n

Eleanor Congdon<\/strong> (Department of History, Youngstown State University)
\n\u2018The Rise of Merchant Use of Paper in the Later Middle Ages\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

Jesse Meyer<\/strong> (Pergamena Parchment and Leathers<\/a>, Montgomery, NY)
\n\u2018Parchment: The Worst Writing Medium Except For All Others\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

This Session is the fifth in our series on \u2018Medieval Writing Materials\u2019<\/strong> at the Congress (2011\u20132014<\/a> and 2016).
\nSpecimens of materials, manuscripts, and documents may be on view, as in earlier years.<\/p>\n

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

II.\u00a0 Co-Sponsored with the Societas Magica<\/h3>\n

\"Logo<\/a>2.\u00a0 ‘Magic on the Page: Transmission and Representation of Magic’<\/strong><\/p>\n

= Congress Session 304.\u00a0 Friday 3:30\u20135:00 pm (Schneider 1225)<\/p>\n

Organizer: L\u00e1szl\u00f3 S\u00e1ndor Chardonnens<\/strong> (Radboud University Nijmigen, The Netherlands)<\/p>\n

Presider: Mildred Budn<\/strong>y (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n

Presenters:<\/p>\n

Samuel Gillis\u2013Hogan<\/strong> (University of Saskatchewan)
\n\u2018Stars in the Hand: The Infusion of Astrology in Chiromancy\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

Jan R. Veenstra<\/strong> (Independent Scholar: Drachten, The Netherlands)
\n\u2018Magical Reconfigurations in Ganell\u2019s Summa Sacre Magice<\/em> in the Kassel Manuscript\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

Lazlo Sandor Chardonnens<\/strong> (Radboud University, Nijmigen)
\n\u2018Retrofitting Early Modern Magical Manuscripts\u2019
\nAbstract of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

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

III.\u00a0 Co-Sponsored with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
\nat the University of Florida<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For the first time, we prepare a Program Booklet, with the Abstracts, for these co-sponsored Sessions at the Congress.\u00a0 It continues the tradition of Program Booklets, published by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and set in RGME Bembino, for our Symposia and Colloquia.\u00a0 (Examples available here<\/a> and here<\/a>.) Last year, we produced the first Program Booklet for one of our Sessions at the Congress (available for download here<\/a>).\u00a0 And now, for this interlinked pair of sessions.\u00a0 We thank the contributors for their long journeys to the Congress to present the fruits of their expertise for this program.<\/p>\n

\"Alternate<\/a>3.\u00a0‘Crusading and the Byzantine Legacy in the Northwestern Black Sea Region’<\/strong><\/p>\n

= Congress Session 13.\u00a0 Thursday 10:00\u201311:30 am (Fetzer 1045)<\/p>\n

Organizers: Florin Curta<\/strong> (University of Florida)
\nand Mildred Budny <\/strong>(Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n

Presider: Florin Curta
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presenters:<\/p>\n

Lauren\u0163iu R\u0103dvan<\/strong> (\u2018Alexandru Ioan Cuza\u2019 University, Ia\u015fi, Romania)
\n\u2018Between Byzantium, the Mongol Empire, Genoa, and Moldavia:
\nTrade Centers in the Northwestern Black Sea Area\u2019<\/p>\n

Ovidiu Cristea<\/strong> (\u2018Nicolae Iorga\u2019 Institute of History, Bucharest, Romania)
\n\u2018The Crusade in the Black Sea Region:
\nDiscourses, Projects, and Actions from the 13th<\/sup> to the 15th<\/sup> Centuries\u2019<\/p>\n

Liviu Pilat<\/strong> (Faculty of History, \u2018Alexandru Ioan Cuza\u2019 University, Ia\u015fi)
\n\u2018A Plan for the Annihilation of Mehmed II in Moldavia (1475\u20121476)\u2019<\/p>\n

Bogdan-Petru Maleon<\/strong> (\u2018Alexandru Ioan Cuza\u2019 University, Ia\u015fi)
\n\u2018Warriors\u2019 Corpses in the Moldavian Anti-Ottoman Wars of the 15th<\/sup> and 16th<\/sup> Centuries\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Logo<\/a>4.\u00a0 ‘The Medieval Balkans as Mirror:
\nByzantine Perceptions of the Balkans and the World Beyond’<\/strong><\/p>\n

= Congress Session 79.\u00a0 Thursday 1:30\u20133:00 pm (Schneider 1355)<\/p>\n

Organizers: Mildred Budny<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
\nand Florin Curta<\/strong> (University of Florida)<\/p>\n

Presider: Mildred Budny<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presenters:<\/p>\n

Kiri\u0142 Marinow<\/strong> (Department of Byzantine History, University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland)
\n\u2018”Wild Sprout Grafted into the Excellent Olive Tree of the New Israel”:
\nByzantine Views of the Bulgarians after Their Conversion\u2019<\/p>\n

Aleksander Paro\u0144<\/strong> (Center for Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies,
\nInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroc\u0142aw, Poland)
\n\u2018 “More Savage than Nature Itself\u201d:
\nThe Image of the Nomads in 10th\u201212th<\/sup> Century Byzantine Sources
\nand the Political Practice of the Constantinopolitan Court\u2019<\/p>\n

Jan Miko\u0142aj Wolski<\/strong> (Department of Byzantine History, University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a)
\n\u2018The Image of Peter I in Bulgarian Historiography: Pet\u0103r Mutaf\u010diev\u2019s Views\u2019<\/p>\n

Elisaveta Todorova<\/strong> (Department of History, University of Cincinnati)
\n\u2018Byzantine Perceptions of the Bulgarian Economy as a Distorted Mirror’<\/p>\n

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

IV.\u00a0 Other Events<\/h2>\n

\"Logo<\/a>5.\u00a0 Open Business Meeting
\nof the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Thursday, 12 May, 12:00\u20131:00 pm (Fetzer 1055)
\nRefreshments provided
\nAll are welcome<\/p>\n

This year’s Open Business Meeting is the second such meeting
\nscheduled within the Congress Program (2015 Agenda here<\/a>).
\nThe goals are to consider our activities, plans for future activities
\n(including programs, research, publications, promotion, and recruiting),
\nand the suggestions emerging from these discussions.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Reception
\n\"New<\/a><\/strong>co-sponsored with the Index of Christian Art<\/a> at Princeton University<\/h3>\n

Friday, 13 May, 5:15\u20137:30 pm (Bernhard 208)
\nOpen Bar
\nAll are welcome<\/p>\n

The 2016 Reception takes inspiration from our Receptions at recent Congresses:<\/p>\n