Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399526784 (ISBN)
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This collection of 21 essays, published together for the first time, offers three new models for thinking about religion and magic in late antiquity. Using a range of sources, David Frankfurter models a shift from thinking about “magic” to looking at the material powers of peculiar things activated in specific life contexts. Frankfurter then brings together various forms of charisma in the late antique world to demonstrate how charisma was both a source of authority and a power that someone could transmit through objects. The collection also considers the relationship of violence to religion, from religious instigations to collective violence to violence in collective fantasy: of martyrs’ torments and of the rites of the monstrous Other.
David Frankfurter is Professor of Religion and Aurelio Chair in the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University.
Acknowledgments and Credits
Abbreviations
General Introduction
Part I: Magic and the Materiality of Religion in Late Antiquity
1. Female Figurines in Early Christian Egypt
2. Fetus Magic and Sorcery Fears in Roman Egypt
3. Scorpion/Demon
4. The Supernatural Vulnerabilities of Domestic Space in Late Antique Egypt
5. The Binding of Antelopes
Part II: Charisma and its Mediation in Landscape and Charms
6.Stylites and Phallobates
7. The Cult of the Martyrs in Egypt before Constantine
8. Voices, Books, and Dreams
9. Where the Spirits Dwell
10. Dynamics of Ritual Expertise in Antiquity and Beyond
11. Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism
12. Charismatic Textuality and the Mediation of Christianity in Late Antique Egypt
13. The Social Context of Women’s Erotic Magic in Antiquity
14. ’As I twirl this spindle, . . .’
Part III: Fantasies and Ideologies of Religious Violence
15. Lest Egypt's City Be Deserted
16. ‘Things Unbefitting Christians’
17. Iconoclasm and Christianization in Late Antique Egypt
18. Horrors of the Inner Chamber
19. On Sacrifice and Residues
20 Martyrology and the Purient Gaze
21. Religion in the Mirror of the Other
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity |
| Zusatzinfo | 27 black and white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399526784 / 9781399526784 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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