INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES

The Medieval Institute


Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-3801
www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress
 

Sessions Sponsored by the Societas Magica at the Forty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13, 2007

  1. MAGIC, SCIENCE AND NATURE
    [Session 384, Saturday 10:30 AM, Valley III, Stinson Lounge]
    Magic, Medicine and Nature in Thirteenth-Century Priests’ Manuals
         Catherine Rider, University of Cambridge
    Sorcery and Sanctity: Natural Philosophy versus Learned Magic in Fifteenth- Century Cologne
         David J. Collins, Georgetown University
    Jacques LeFèvre d’Étaples: Humanism and Hermetism in the De magia naturali
         Jan Veenstra, Rijksuniversity, Groningen

  2. MAGIC AND THE HOLY BOOK
    [Session 479, Saturday 1:30 PM, Schneider 1255]
    Biblical Authority in the Malleus maleficarum: Sacred Text in Support of a Radical Agenda
         David Porreca, University of Waterloo
    De magia naturali and Quintuplex psalterium by Jacques LeFèvre d’Étaples: Kabbalah as Biblical Magic
         Kathryn LeFevers Evans, Independent Scholar
    Qur’anic Sumbols and Influence in the Corpus of Ahmad Ibn ‘Ali Al-Buni (d. 622 AH/1225 CE)
         Edgar Francis IV, College of the Holy Cross

  3. THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM
    [Session 540, Saturday 3:30, Schneider 1265]
    Thinking with Inquisitors: The Origins and Intentions of the New Text Translation of the Malleus maleficarum
         Christopher Mackay, University of Alberta
    Malleus maleficarum and its Influence on Sixteenth-Century Spanish Treatises on Superstition and Witchcraft
         Gabriela Cerghedean, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Imago Maleficarum: The Impact of the Malleus maleficarum on Witchcraft Imagery in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art
         Guy Tal, Indiana University-Bloomington

Updated: March 18, 2007