*FUNDAMENTALS COURSE (5 CFU)*
Magic as therapy. Verbal remedies in Middle Ages.
- Magic, medicine, healing magic and verbal remedies in Middle Ages.
- Monastic medicine and magic: prayers, blessings and charms.
- Fundamentals of medieval medicine (how to live safe and sound, dietetics, pharmacology, surgery).
- The word as remedy: performative power of the effective word.
- Charms structure and different types: problems of classification and analysis.
- The manuscript tradition of charms in Germanic Middle Ages: writing, transmission, reception. Relationship between Latin and vernacular languages.
- Problems related to the critical edition of a charm;
- Linguistic, philological and textual analysis of the charms (from: Eleonora Cianci Incantesimi e benedizioni nella letteratura tedesca medievale (IX-XIII sec.). Göppingen 2004):
1. Ad catarrum dic, pp. 109-110.
2. Ad fluxum sanguinis narium, pp. 111-112.
3. Ad restringendum sanguinem (Abdinghof), pp. 115-117.
4. Bamberg first charm (to stop bleeding), pp. 120-121.
5. Bamberg second charm (to heal wounds), pp. 121-123.
6. Munich charm for wounds, pp. 132-135.
7. Ad equum infusum, pp. 61-64
8. Ad equum errehet, pp. 58-61
9. De hoc quod spurihalz dicunt, pp. 69-72
10. Incantacio contra equorum egritudinem quam nos dicimus spurihalz, pp. 73-76
11. Merseburg second charm, pp. 77-83
12. Contra vermes, pp. 90-92
13. Pro Nessia, pp. 100-102
14. Contra caducum morbum, pp. 142-145
15. Pro cadente morbo, pp. 146-148
16. Contra malum malannum, pp. 159-164
*SPECIAL TOPIC COURSE (1 CFU)*
Magic and crime.
• Magic and law.
• Magic as crime and magic as an ordeal.
• Theft charms and Germanic laws against theft.
• Linguistic analysis of a theft charm.
