Drawing Spirit : : The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity /

Drawing Spirit : : The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity / / ed. by Jay Johnston, Iain Gardner.

A pioneering interdisciplinary study of the art, production and social functions of Late Antique ritual artefacts. Utilising case studies from the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and the Heidelberg archive it establishes new approaches, provides a holistic understanding of the multi-sensory aspects o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Dosoo, Korshi,
Gardner, Iain,
Johnston, Jay,
Kindt, Julia,
HerausgeberIn:
Gardner, Iain,
Johnston, Jay,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 269 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Plates
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 ‘Magical Images:’ An Esoteric Aesthetics of Engagement
  • 2 Evoking the Supernatural: Text and Image in Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri
  • 3 The Heidelberg Magical Archive: A Discussion of its Origins, Context and Purpose
  • 4 An Archive of Coptic Handbooks and Exemplars for the Making of Amulets and the Enacting of Ritual Power from the Tenth Century (P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 680–683 and 685–686)
  • 5 Two Body Problems: Binding Effigies in Christian Egypt and Elsewhere
  • 6 Image Play: On Angels and Insects
  • Plates
  • Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Manuscript Index

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