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
by Gordon, R. L. and Francisco Marco Simón
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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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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) / Maria Victoria Escribano Pano
Part II: Revising the corpus
Th edefixiones from the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz / Jurgen Blansdorf
Religion and magic at Rome : the Fountain of Anna Perenna / Marina Piranomonte
The texts from the Fons Annae Perennae / Jurgen Blansdorf
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 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 Simon
Part IV: Protective, eudaemonic, and divinatory magic
Nails for the dead : a polysemic account of an ancient funerary practice / Silvia Alfaye Villa
Magic at sea : amulets for navigation / Sabino Perea Yebenes
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 Velazquez Soriano
Celtic Loricae and ancient magical charms / Pierre-Yves Lambert.
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