The iconography of magic: images of power and the power of images in ancient and late antique magic

"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 o...

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Weitere Verfasser: Martín Hernández, Raquel (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT Peeters 2022
Schriftenreihe:Studies in the history and anthropology of religion 7
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Zusammenfassung:"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."
Beschreibung:Includes index
Beschreibung:XIX, 195 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:9789042948822

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