Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-3801
www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress
Sessions Sponsored by the Societas Magica at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies May 13–16, 2010
1. POLITICS, CONDEMNATION, AND SORCERY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
[Session 412, Saturday 10:00 AM, Schneider 1325]
Co-sponsored by the 14th Century Society
Organizer: Claire Fanger, Rice Univ.
Presider: Claire Fanger
Trials for Sorcery in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon
Robert Ticknor, Tulane Univ.
Acknowledging the Annals: A New Perspective on Witchcraft in the Alice Kyteler Trial
Vanessa R. Taylor, Catholic Univ. of America
Maleficae et Maledictae Feminae: Fourteenth-Century Sources for Key Features of the Learned Interpretation of Witchcraft in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages
Fabrizio Conti, Central European Univ.
2. LOVE MAGIC
[Session 469, Saturday 1:30 PM, Schneider 1355]
Organizer: Amelia Carr, Allegheny College
Presider: Amelia Carr
Love and Body Parts: A Study on the Use of Cadavers in Love Magic in the PGM, the Picatrix, and the Munich Handbook
David Porreca, Univ. of Waterloo
Love Potion #9: Examining Tristan and Isolt for Popular Notions of “Love” and “Magic” in the Medieval British Isles
Jennifer Pluck, Univ. of North Carolina–Charlotte
Love Magic in Late Medieval English Confession and Preaching Manuals
Catherine Rider, Univ. of Exeter
What Do We Mean by “Love Magic”?
Frank Klaassen, Univ. of Saskatchewan
3. MAGIC IN ITS MANUSCRIPT CONTEXT
[Session 519, Saturday 3:30 PM, Schneider 1350]
Co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: Amelia Carr, Allegheny College
Presider: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
A Household Approach to Magic: Charms in Cambridge, Trinity College MS 1081
Laura Mitchell, Univ. of Toronto
Use of Mysterious Symbols in the Liber florum Old Compilation, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS liturg. 160
Claire Fanger, Rice Univ.
Fashionable Magic: Characters and Ciphers in Conrad Buitzruss’s Compendium (Munich, Clm 671)
Elizabeth I. Wade-Sirabian, Univ. of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
4. CIPHERS, CODES, AND MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS I: MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE
[Session 549, Sunday 8:30 AM, Schneider 1220]
Co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: Amelia Carr, Allegheny College
Presider: Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern Univ.
Encoding, Decoding, and the Milieu of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
Jen Reid, Univ. van Amsterdam
Angelic Alphabets: What Do They Mean?
Marla Segol, Skidmore College
Outdated Cipher-Systems in Magic Texts
Benedek Láng, Budapesti Muszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
5. CIPHERS, CODES, AND MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS II: OBJECTS OF POWER
[Session 588, Sunday 10:30 AM, Schneider 1220]
Organizer: Amelia Carr, Allegheny College
Presider: Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern Univ.
Symbolic Power in Traditional Ethiopia
Sean M. Winslow, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto
Runic Books, Clerical Magicians, and the Dead in Icelandic Folklore
Thomas B. de Mayo, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
The Hooked X, a Grail Code, and a New Translation of the Kensington Runestone
James L. Frankki, Sam Houston State Univ.