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Media type:
Book
Title:
The materiality of magic
Contains:
The materiality of textual amulets in ancient Egypt
/ Jacco Dieleman
Monstrous figurines from Mesopotamia : textuality, spatiality and materiality in rituals and incantations for the protection of houses in first-millennium As̆s̆ur
/ Laura Feldt
From the magician's workshop : notes on the materiality of Greek curse tablets
/ Jaime Curbera
A "voodoo doll" from Keos in Berlin's Antikensammlung
/ Jaime Curbera and Sergio Giannobile
Appendix to A "voodoo doll" from Keos in Berlin's Antikensammlung
/ Jochen Vogl and Martin Rosner
From substances to texts : three materialities of "magic" in the Roman Imperial Period
/ Richard L. Gordon
Probaskania : amulets and magic in antiquity
/ Véronique Dasen
Engineering ancient amulets : magical gems of the Roman imperial period
/ Árpád M. Nagy
From books with magic to magical books in ancient Greece and Rome?
/ Jan N. Bremmer
The interplay between image and text : on Greek amulets containing Christian elements from late antique Egypt
/ Jitse Dijkstra
The curse inscriptions and the Materia magica of the Anna-Perenna-Nymphaeum at Rome
/ Jürgen Blänsdorf
More lucky wearers : the magic of portable inscriptions
/ Annewies Van Den Hoek, Denis Feissel, John J. Herrmann, Jr.
Magical material & material survivals : amulets, talismans, and mirrors in early modern Europe
/ Peter J. Forshaw
The material culture of post-medieval domestic magic in Europe : evidence, comparisons, and interpretations
/ Owen Davies.
Description:
"In the last two decades we have had many books and proceedings of conferences on the history, formulas and incantations of magic in antiquity, both in East and West, but this is the first book of its kind that focuses on the material aspects of magic, such as gems, rings, drawings, grimoires, amulets and figurines. In recent years scholars have focused not only on the discourse and practices of magic in antiquity, but also on its practitioners, literary stereotypes and historical shifts. Much less attention, however, has been paid to the material that was used by the magicians for their curses and incantations. Yet there is no magic without materiality. The practice of magic required a specialist expertise that knew how to handle material such as lead, gold, stones, papyrus, figurines or voodoo dolls. That is why we present new insights on the materiality of magic by studying both the materials used for magic as well as the books in which the expertise was preserved"--