Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-3801
www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress
Sessions Sponsored by the Societas Magica at the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7, 2006
I. Codicological Contexts for Works of Magic I
Co-Sponsored by the Research Group on
Manuscript Evidence
New Genre or Old Corruption? Two Versions of a Medieval Hebrew Magic
Manual
Victoria Duroff, University of
Toronto
The Healer and the Book: Rituals in Late Medieval Remedybooks
Lea Olsan, University of Louisiana
at Monroe
Magical Texts in Physical Context: The Codicology of a Thirteenth-Century
English Amulet
Don C. Skemer, Princeton University
II. Codicological Contexts for Works of Magic II
Co-Sponsored by the Research Group on
Manuscript Evidence
A Twelfth-Century Treatise on Esoteric Shorthand in its Manuscript
Context
John Haines, University of Toronto
The Fortunes of a Book: Berengarius Ganellus' Summa Sacre Magice
(Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS Germ. Fol. 903)
Jan Veenstra, University of Groningen
'The Syve will Turne Rounde': Reclaiming Ritual Magic in Oxford,
Bodleian, MS Additional B.1.
Christopher Phillips, University of
Saskatchewan
III. Magic, Conception and Childbirth
Co-Sponsored by Medica: Society for the
Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
An Overview of Charms, Herbs and Amulets in Medieval Women's Birthing
Practices
Ginger Guardiola, Colorado State
University
How Æðelhild Expected When She Was Exepecting: Prognostication
and Self-Help in Anglo-Saxon England
John A. Geck, University of Toronto
Magical Intervention in High Medieval Conception and Birth
Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Trent
University
IV. Magical and Sacred Objects: Talismans, Chalices, Wheels
Guardians at the Door: Apotropaic Remedies for Domicilic Perils
C. Riley Auge, Flathead Valley
Community College
Contagious Grace: Ritual Paraphernalia and Magical Contamination in
Medieval Christianity
Ayse Tuzlak, University of Calgary
Working Models: Theorizing Kabbalistic Volvelles
Marla Segol, Carleton University
V. Picatrix
The Medici Carved Gems and the Picatrix
Pat Aakhus, University of Southern
Indiana
Picatrix Illustratus
Benedek Láng, Budapest
University of Technology and Economics
Facias Ymaginem: Wax Figures and Interpersonal Relations in
Picatrix
Elisabeth Carnell, Western Michigan
University