MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009041611
003 DLC
005 20100315174244.0
008 091006s2010 ne af b 101 0 eng
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050 00 $aBF1591$b.M3444 2010
082 00 $a133.4/3094$222
245 00 $aMagical practice in the Latin West :$bpapers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005 /$cedited by Richard L. Gordon and Francisco Marco Simón.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2010.
300 $axxvi, 676 p., [28] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world,$x0927-7633 ;$vv. 168
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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.
650 0 $aMagic$zEurope$xHistory$vCongresses.
700 1 $aGordon, R. L.$q(Richard Lindsay)
700 1 $aMarco Simón, Francisco.
830 0 $aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world ;$vv. 168.