Magical practice in the Latin West
Subtitle: papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005
By: edited by Richard L. Gordon and Francisco Marco Simón.
Contributors: Gordon, R. L.; Marco Simón, Francisco.
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 168; Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 168.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9789004179042
Subjects: Magic -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard Gordon and Francisco Marco Simon; title: Part I. The discourse of magic; title: Magus and its cognates in classical Latin / James B. Rives; title: Magic in the Roman historians / Matthew W. Dickie; title: Heretical texts and maleficium in the Codex Theodosianus (CTh . 16.5.34) / María Victoria Escribano Paño; title: Part II. Revising the corpus; title: The defixiones from the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz / Jürgen Blänsdorf; title: Religion and magic at Rome : the Fountain of Anna Perenna / Marina Piranomonte; title: The texts from the Fons Annae Perennae / Jürgen Blänsdorf; title: Cursing a thief in Iberia and Britain / Roger Tomlin; title: Prayers for justice in East and West : recent finds and publications / Henk S. Versnel; title: Part III. Writing defixiones : models, language, and aims; title: How does magical language work? : the spells and formulae of the Latin defixionum tabellae / Amina Kropp; title: Inversion, adversion and perversion as strategies in some Latin curse tablets / Christopher Faraone and Amina Kropp; title: Execrating the Roman power : three defixiones from Emporiae (Ampurias) / Francisco Marco Simón; title: Part IV. Protective, eudaemonic, and divinatory magic; title: Nails for the dead : a polysemic account of an ancient funerary practice / Silvia Alfayé Villa; title: Magic at sea : amulets for navigation / Sabino Perea Yébenes; title: A prayer for blessings on three ritual objects at Chartres-Autricum (France/Eure-et-loir) / Richard Gordon, Dominique Joly, and William van Andringa; title: Mithraism and magic / Jaime Alvar Ezquerrez; title: A visigothic charm from Asturias and the classical tradition of Phylacteries against hail / Francisco Javier Fernandez Nieto; title: Between Orthodox belief and "superstition" in Visigothic Hispania / Isabel Velázquez Soriano; title: Celtic Loricae and ancient magical charms / Pierre-Yves Lambert.