- EAN13
- 9789042948822
- ISBN
- 978-90-429-4882-2
- Éditeur
- PEETERS
- Date de publication
- 20/09/2022
- Collection
- STUDIES IN THE
- Nombre de pages
- 215
- Dimensions
- 24 x 16 x 1,7 cm
- Poids
- 350 g
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
The Iconography of Magic
Images of Power and the Power of Images in Ancient and Late Antique Magic
Raquel M H.
Peeters
Studies In The
Offres
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.
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