No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. printed in the netherlandsĬONTENTS Preface. List of Text-Figures, Tables and Illustrations. ![]() Introduction Richard Gordon and Francisco Marco Simón. THE DISCOURSE OF MAGIC Chapter One Magus and its Cognates in Classical Latin. RivesĬhapter Two Magic in the Roman Historians. DickieĬhapter Three Heretical Texts and maleficium in the Codex Theodosianus (CTh. REVISING THE CORPUS Chapter Four The defixiones from the Sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz. Jürgen BlänsdorfĬhapter Five Religion and Magic at Rome: The Fountain of Anna Perenna. Marina PiranomonteĬhapter Six The Texts from the Fons Annae Perennae. Jürgen BlänsdorfĬhapter Seven Cursing a Thief in Iberia and Britain. Roger Tomlin Chapter Eight Prayers for Justice in East and West: Recent Finds and Publications. WRITING DEFIXIONES: MODELS, LANGUAGE AND AIMS Chapter Nine How does Magical Language Work? The Spells and of the Latin defixionum tabellae. Amina KroppĬhapter Ten Inversion, Adversion and Perversion as Strategies in some Latin Curse Tablets. Christopher Faraone and Amina KroppĬhapter Eleven Execrating the Roman Power: Three defixiones from Emporiae (Ampurias). PROTECTIVE, EUDAEMONIC AND DIVINATORY MAGIC Chapter Twelve Nails for the Dead: A Polysemic Account of an Ancient Funerary Practice. ![]() Silvia Alfayé Villa Chapter Thirteen Magic at Sea: Amulets for Navigation. Sabino Perea Yébenes Chapter Fourteen A Prayer for Blessings on three Ritual Objects at Chartres-Autricum (France/Eure-et-Loir). Richard Gordon, Dominique Joly and William van AndringaĬontents Chapter Fifteen Mithraism and Magic. Jaime Alvar EzquerraĬhapter Sixteen A Visigothic Charm from Asturias and the Classical Tradition of Phylacteries Against Hail. Francisco Javier Fernández NietoĬhapter Seventeen Between Orthodox Belief and ‘Superstition’ in Visigothic Hispania. Isabel Velázquez SorianoĬhapter Eighteen Celtic Loricae and Ancient Magical Charms. Select Index of Texts and Documents cited. PREFACE This volume presents most of the papers given at the conference Magical Practice in the Latin-speaking Empire (Late Republic to Late Antiquity)/Prácticas mágicas en el Imperio romano latinoparlante desde fines de la República a la Antigüedad Tardía held at the University of Zaragoza (Saragosa) between 30th September and 1st October 2005. It is familiar that contemporary academic interest in the history of magic and witchcraft is a product of the shifts in historiographic practice that occurred in the 1960s, when many western European historians outside France discovered the history of mentalities and social micro-history, prompted by the example of the Annales school, especially Henri Lefebvre and E. ![]() The European archives were full of scarcely-exploited materials on witchcraft and magic, which have fuelled a now vast bibliography: as Robin Briggs recently put it, “witches have. Become big business in modern times”.1 Although it took some two decades for this influence to make itself felt in the field of ancient history, with the important exception of a famous paper by Peter Brown,2 the topic has become well-established over the past fifteen or twenty years, its commencement conventionally marked by the publication of Hans-Dieter Betz’ collective The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (19861), Christopher Faraone and Dirk Obbink’s Hiera Magika (1991) and John Gager’s Curse Tablets and Binding Spells (1992).
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