Magic and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Published by Warburg Institute, 2006
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- Title
- Magic and the Classical Tradition
- Author
- W. F. Ryan
- Publisher
- Warburg Institute
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0854811311
- ISBN 13
- 9780854811311
- Item weight
- 526 grams
The present volume arose from a colloquium on magic and divination intended to apply the study of the history of the classical tradition to the specific area of magic. Magic is interpreted in a very broad sense, and the book includes discussions of Neoplatonic theurgy, Hermetic astrological talismans, the occult activities of oracles and witches, demon-possession, popular beliefs and party tricks. While several articles look at magic in the Graeco-Roman tradition, others deal with practices in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Byzantium and Russia. The emphasis is on showing transmission through time, and across cultural and linguistic borders, and the continuing importance of classical or ancient authorities among writers of more recent periods. Editions of several previously unpublished Latin texts are included.
Contents
M. J. Geller: Deconstructing Talmudic Magic
† David Pingree: From Hermes to Jabir and the Book of the Cow
Jeffrey Spier: A Revival of Antique Magical Practice in Tenth-Century Constantinople
W. F. Ryan: Ancient Demons and Russian Fevers
Adelina Angusheva: Divination, Demons and Magic: A Hellenistic Theme from the Byzantine and Medieval Slavic Perspective
Sophie Page: Image-Magic Texts and a Platonic Cosmology at St Augustine's, Canterbury in the Late Middle Ages
Charles Burnett: A Hermetic Programme of Astrology and Divination in mid-Twelfth-Century Aragon: the Hidden Preface in the Liber novem iudicum
Jan R. Veenstra: Venerating and Conjuring Angels: Eiximenis's Book of the Holy Angels and the Holy Almandal. Two Case Studies
Robert Goulding: Deceiving the Senses in the Thirteenth Century: Trickery and Illusion in the Secretum philosophorum
Nicolas Weill-Parot: Contriving Classical References for Talismanic Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance
Paolo Lucentini and Antonella Sannino: Recommendatio astronomiae: un anonimo trattato del secolo XV in difesa dell'astrologia e della magia
Richard Kieckhefer: Did Magic Have a Renaissance? An Historiographic Question Revisited.
Dorothy Severin: Two Fifteenth-Century Spanish Literary Conjurations and their Relationship to Lucan's Pharsalia VI
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