Word Eaters: Graphophagy in the Early and High Middle Ages

Language: English

Published by Brill, NL, 2026

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Syrups made from sacred words dissolved in water, cups with inscribed letters, and mysterious symbols traced on food-graphophagy, the ingestion of words, was real and widespread, yet scarcely studied within the medieval European context. This volume reveals how people consumed texts for therapeutic, ritual, and devotional purposes between late antiquity and the high Middle Ages. It explores remedies hidden in the margins of manuscripts, traces of ingestion in grimoires and medical texts, and charms echoing from Egypt to Scandinavia to illustrate that eating words was neither irrational nor exotic: it was a coherent ritual strategy that transformed ink and parchment into powerful tools for acting upon reality.

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Title
Word Eaters: Graphophagy in the Early and High Middle Ages
Author
Andrea Maraschi
Publisher
Brill, NL
Publication year
2026
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
9004765492
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9789004765498
Item weight
332 grams

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