Magical practice in the Latin West : papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005 /

Magical practice in the Latin West : papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005 /

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Meeting name:Magical Practice in the Latin-speaking Empire (Late Republic to Late Antiquity) (2005 : University of Zaragoza)
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 676 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 168
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 168.
Subject:
Magic -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
Magic -- history.
Religion -- history.
History, Ancient.
Greek World -- history.
Roman World -- history.
Magic.
Europe.
Electronic books.
Congress.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261289
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Other authors / contributors:Gordon, R. L. (Richard Lindsay)
Marco Simón, Francisco.
ISBN:9789047441397
9047441397
9789004179042
9004179046
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
Summary:Most studies of Graeco-Roman magic focus on the Greek texts. Stimulated by important recent finds of Latin curse-tablets, this collection of essays for the first time tries to define the nature and extent of the originality of magical practice in the Latin West.
Other form:Print version: Magical Practice in the Latin-speaking Empire (Late Republic to Late Antiquity) (2005 : University of Zaragoza). Magical practice in the Latin West. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004179042
Standard no.:10.1163/ej.9789004179042.i-676
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Richard Gordon and Francisco Marco Simon
  • Part I. The discourse of magic
  • Magus and its cognates in classical Latin / James B. Rives
  • Magic in the Roman historians / Matthew W. Dickie
  • Heretical texts and maleficium in the Codex Theodosianus (CTh . 16.5.34) / María Victoria Escribano Paño
  • Part II. Revising the corpus
  • The defixiones from the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz / Jürgen Blänsdorf
  • Religion and magic at Rome : the Fountain of Anna Perenna / Marina Piranomonte
  • The texts from the Fons Annae Perennae / Jürgen Blänsdorf
  • Cursing a thief in Iberia and Britain / Roger Tomlin
  • Prayers for justice in East and West : recent finds and publications / Henk S. Versnel
  • Part III. Writing defixiones : models, language, and aims
  • How does magical language work? : the spells and formulae of the Latin defixionum tabellae / Amina Kropp
  • Inversion, adversion and perversion as strategies in some Latin curse tablets / Christopher Faraone and Amina Kropp
  • Execrating the Roman power : three defixiones from Emporiae (Ampurias) / Francisco Marco Simón
  • Part IV. Protective, eudaemonic, and divinatory magic
  • Nails for the dead : a polysemic account of an ancient funerary practice / Silvia Alfayé Villa
  • Magic at sea : amulets for navigation / Sabino Perea Yébenes
  • A prayer for blessings on three ritual objects at Chartres-Autricum (France/Eure-et-loir) / Richard Gordon, Dominique Joly, and William van Andringa
  • Mithraism and magic / Jaime Alvar Ezquerrez
  • A visigothic charm from Asturias and the classical tradition of Phylacteries against hail / Francisco Javier Fernandez Nieto
  • Between Orthodox belief and "superstition" in Visigothic Hispania / Isabel Velázquez Soriano
  • Celtic Loricae and ancient magical charms / Pierre-Yves Lambert.

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