Claire Burridge is a Senior Researcher at the University of OsloIldar 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 Burridge1 Blended rituals: Minuscule texts at the crossroad of the liturgical prayer and incantation – Ildar Garipzanov2 Blended healing: The intersections of medical recipes and incantations – Claire Burridge3 Experimental intercession in the margins? Intercessory minitexts in early medieval pastoral compendia – Carine van Rhijn4 The manuscript contexts of early medieval animal incantations – Tim Hertogh 5 Multilingual verbal remedies: Compilation and transmission of Old High German charms – Eleonora Cianci6 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 Banham8 English charms and the eleventh-century medical mainstream – Katherine Hindley9 A medical charm and an angelic prayer – Jacqueline Borsje10 Marginalised, censored, appropriated: ‘Magical’ elements in Byzantine liturgical codices(Euchologia) – Eirini Afentoulidou11 Coptic prayers and amulets for healing and protection in early medieval palimpsest manuscripts – Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin