IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1004: Medieval Charms, Charmers, and Charming, I: Charms in the Middle Ages and after

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	'Charms, Charmers & Charming' Section, International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
Organiser:	Jonathan Roper, Department of Estonian & Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu
Moderator/Chair:	Jacqueline Borsje, School of Irish Language & Literature, University of Ulster / Art, Religion & Culture Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Paper 1004-a	Reconsidering the Meaning of G(e)aldor in Old English: Condemned Pagan Practice or Christian Ritual? (Language: English) Ciaran Arthur, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Kent Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Liturgy, Pagan Religions
Paper 1004-b	Caput Christi and 'Heaven and long life and riches to him who will sing it': The Written Environment and the Textual Transmission of an Irish Charm (Language: English) Ilona Tuomi, Department of Early & Medieval Irish, University College Cork / University of Helsinki Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine
Paper 1004-c	In Search of Lost Medieval Hungarian Charms through Their Traces in 16th- and 17th-Century Texts (Language: English) Éva Pócs, Department of Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs Index terms: Folk Studies, Literacy and Orality, Medicine, Religious Life
Abstract	The International Society for Folk Narrative Research has a section for research on Charms, Charmers and Charming which meets biannually: www.isfnr.org/files/committeecharms.html. Roughly half of our members are medievalists. In our sponsored session here at Leeds, our speakers consider the mis en page performance of an Irish charm found in a St Gallen manuscript (and elsewhere), how the Old English term g(e)aldor might be conceived of in a broader way than is currently typical, and how early modern texts might help us in reconstructing medieval Hungarian charms (and with what limitations).