The materiality of magic / edited by Dietrich Boschung and Jan N. Bremmer.
"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,...
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Paderborn :
Wilhelm Fink,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.