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Between liturgy and magic
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15 December 2026
HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Social History, Historical research: source documents, Social and cultural history
Claire Burridge is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo
Ildar Garipzanov is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oslo
Introduction: Minuscule texts and intercessory strategies in the early Middle Ages – Ildar Garipzanov and Claire Burridge
1 Blended rituals: Minuscule texts at the crossroad of the liturgical prayer and incantation – Ildar Garipzanov
2 Blended healing: The intersections of medical recipes and incantations – Claire Burridge
3 Experimental intercession in the margins? Intercessory minitexts in early medieval pastoral compendia – Carine van Rhijn
4 The manuscript contexts of early medieval animal incantations – Tim Hertogh
5 Multilingual verbal remedies: Compilation and transmission of Old High German charms – Eleonora Cianci
6 Incantation, prayer or magical formula? Old High German intercessory minuscule marginalia and the power of language between religion, ‘magic’ and medicine – Tina Terrahe (translated by Philipp Nothaft)
7 Marginal, magical, mainstream? Rituals and verbal formulas in the compilation and development of Bald’s Leechbook and Leechbook III – Debby Banham
8 English charms and the eleventh-century medical mainstream – Katherine Hindley
9 A medical charm and an angelic prayer – Jacqueline Borsje
10 Marginalised, censored, appropriated: ‘Magical’ elements in Byzantine liturgical codices(Euchologia) – Eirini Afentoulidou
11 Coptic prayers and amulets for healing and protection in early medieval palimpsest manuscripts – Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin