Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-3801
www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress
Sessions Sponsored by the Societas Magica at the Forty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009
MEDIEVAL MAGIC MANUSCRIPTS IN USE
Incantations: Singing off the Page
John Haines, Univ. of Toronto
The Printed, Popular, and Problematic Manuscripts of a Medieval Muslim
Magician: Issues in the Study of Shams al-ma'arif and Other Writings
Attributed to al-Buni
Edgar Francis IV, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
At the Cutting Edge: The Use of Weapons in Magical Spells: A Comparison of
the PGM, the Picatrix, and the Munich Handbook
David Porreca, Univ. of Waterloo
PURITY AND TRANSGRESSION
[Session 310, Friday 1:30PM, Sangren 2210]
David Porreca presiding
The Notion of Purity in Jewish and Christian Magic
Katelyn Mesler, Northwestern Univ.
The King, the Abbot and the Woman Druid: Secular and Clerical Magic in a
Twelfh-Century Irish Death Tale
Patricia Aakhus, Univ. of Southern Indiana
Social Purity, Individual Transgression: Magic and Nationhood in Chretien de
Troyes's Cliges
Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth, Allegheny College
NEW METHODOLOGIES AND PARADIGMS IN THE STUDY OF MAGIC: A ROUNDTABLE
[Session 324, Friday 3:30PM, Valley II, Garneau Lounge]
Frank Klaassen presiding
With Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State Univ.; Edward Bever, SUNY College-Old
Westbury