IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1104: Medieval Charms, Charmers, and Charming, II: The Various Uses of Verbal Magic
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | 'Charms, Charmers & Charming' Section, International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) |
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Organiser: | Jonathan Roper, Department of Estonian & Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu |
Moderator/Chair: | Éva Pócs, Department of Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs |
Paper 1104-a | The Oldest German Theft Charm and Its Cultural Context (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Folk Studies, Language and Literature - German |
Paper 1104-b | Magical Management: Medieval Bulgarian Verbal Amulets as Part of a Coping Strategy (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Slavic, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life |
Paper 1104-c | Impotence Magic from Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Monasticism, Pagan Religions, Sexuality |
Abstract | This is the second of panel on medieval charms, charmers, and charming at Leeds this year, sponsored by the ISFNR's Committee on Charms, Charmers, and Charming. In this panel, papers examine a) instructions on using a Zaubersieb to find thieves which accompany a c. 13th German charm (the earliest documentation of a procedure later popular in German tradition), and b) how Bulgarian charms were used as part of crisis management and coping strategies in the Middle Ages, and c) what a Irish spell, headed 'Knowledge to render a man impotent' was doing in a monastic manuscript. |