An edition of Magical practice in the Latin West (2009)

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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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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Magical practice in the Latin West: papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005
2010, Brill
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Cover of: Magical practice in the Latin West
Magical practice in the Latin West: papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005
2010, Brill
in English
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Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the International Conference Held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept. - 1st Oct. 2005
2009, BRILL
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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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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 168, Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 168.
Genre
Congresses

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Dewey Decimal Class
133.4/3094
Library of Congress
BF1591 .M3444 2010

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Pagination
xxvi, 676 p., [28] p. of plates :
Number of pages
676

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OL24094747M
ISBN 10
9004179046
ISBN 13
9789004179042
LCCN
2009041611

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