Germanic Philology - Germanic Philology 13

Magic and texts in medieval Germanic traditions.

Magic and Texts in Medieval Germanic Traditions.

Editorial Board / Editorial Board

Patrizia Lendinara (University of Palermo) – Editor-in-Chief / Editor-in-chief
Alessandro Zironi (Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna) – President of AIFG / Chairman of AIFG
Maria Grazia Cammarota (University of Bergamo) – Councillor of AIFG / Councillor of AIFG
Rosella Tinaburri (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio) – Councillor of AIFG / Councillor of AIFG

 

Scientific Committee / Scientific Committee

Maria Cristina Lombardi (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) – Coordinator / Coordinator
Eleonora Cianci (University of Studies “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti – Pescara)
Carla Riviello (University of Calabria)
Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu)
Letizia Vezzosi (University of Florence)

TABLE OF CONTENTS / CONTENTS

ÁRMANN JAKOBSSON
The magical past, the term forneskja and the Christianization of Iceland in
13th and 14th century history writing (pp. 1-21)

JASMINE BRIA
Divining practices in the Wonders of the East: the figure of the donestri (pp. 23-43)

DONATA BULLOTTA
Middle English magic formulas of the 15th century between conventionality and
innovation (pp. 45-70)

CLAUDIO CATALDI
The verse forms of the Old English “metrical” charms (pp. 71-90)

ELEONORA CIANCI
Problems of publishing the oldest German spellings (pp. 91-112)

GIUSEPPE D. DE BONIS
Issuer, addressee and executor in magical texts in Old English
(pp. 113-131)

DANIELA FRUSCIONE
Magic in the leges. Structural issues (pp. 133-154)

OMAR KHALAF
Encyclopaedic preservation or performative act? The translation of Latin
charms in the Old English Medicina de quadrupedibus (pp. 155-170)

MARIA CRISTINA LOMBARDI
Magic and precious stones in the Old Swedish Euphemiavisa Hertig Fredrik
av Normandie (pp. 171-195)

STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Magic in Old Norse-Icelandic literature: a typology of modes (pp. 197-224)

CARLA RIVIELLO
Circe’s magic: from Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae to the
Old English and Old High German versions (pp. 225-272)

CLAUDIA ROSENZWEIG
Elye ha-novi and the vampire in Old Yiddish (and Judeo-Italian).
A historiola and its history (pp. 253-278)

VERIO SANTORO
There is no magic in the Old Saxon Heliand (pp. 279-306)

MICHAEL SCHULTE
Magie in den älteren und jüngeren Runeninschriften? – Zum Status magischer
Konzepte in der Runologie (pp. 307-327)

LETIZIA VEZZOSI
Code-switching in Middle English healing charms (pp. 329-357).

LIST OF AUTHORS / LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (pp. 359-361)

PREVIOUS VOLUMES / PREVIOUS VOLUMES (pp. 362-363)

FG-GPh-13-Frontispiece-index
https://aifg.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Book_Abstract.pdf
FG-GPh-14-Contributors.