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The iconography of magic : images of power and the power of images in ancient and late antique magic
- Title
- The iconography of magic : images of power and the power of images in ancient and late antique magic / edited by Raquel Martín Hernández.
- Publication
- Leuven : Peeters, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Additional Authors
- Martin Hernández, Raquel
- Description
- xix, 195 pages : illustrations (partly color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called "material turn" in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects."
- Series Statement
- Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 7
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- The "vignettes" of the Greek magical papyri. Visual elements of pharaonic magical tradition and the use of bildzauber in the PGM / R. Lucarelli -- Images of tied victims in magical texts / F. Marco Simón and C. Sánchez Natalías -- Eulamo vs. Seth. On the equine-headed demon represented in the defixiones from Porta S. Sebastiano (Rome) / R. Martín Hernández -- Baitmo and Lamashtu / G. Németh -- The hungry wolf / A. Mastrocinque -- The late-antique transfer of circular gem-designs to papyri and foil: The ouroborus and Solomon's Seal / Ch.A. Faraone -- The Anguipede, its origins and market diffusion / W. Shandruk -- Heathen serpents and wingless angels? Some notes on images in Coptic magical text / K. Dosoo -- Drawing and writing. Reflections on the transmission of ritual knowledge / S. Crippa.
- Call Number
- JQE 22-988
- ISBN
- 9789042948822
- 9042948825
- LCCN
- 9789042948822
- OCLC
- 1349331963
- Title
- The iconography of magic : images of power and the power of images in ancient and late antique magic / edited by Raquel Martín Hernández.
- Publisher
- Leuven : Peeters, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 7
- Added Author
- Martin Hernández, Raquel, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9789042948822
- Research Call Number
- JQE 22-988