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Material approaches to Roman magic : occult objects and supernatural substances /

This second volume in the 'TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology' series "seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. Building on the pioneering studies in Bo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Parker, Adam, 1988- (Editor ), McKie, Stuart (Historian) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2018.
Colección:TRAC Themes in Roman archaeology ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Forward / Sergio Gonzaléz Sánchez
  • Introduction: Materials, approaches, substances, and objects / Stuart McKie and Adam Parker
  • The medium matters : materiality and metaphor in some Latin curse tablets / Celia Sánchez Natalías
  • Phallic magic : a cross cultural approach to Roman phallic small finds / Allissa Whitmore
  • Little bottles of power : Roman glass unguentaria in magic, ritual and poisoning / Thomas Derrick
  • Victory of good over evil? : amuletic animal images on Roman engraved gems / Idit Sagiv
  • 'The bells! The bells!' : approaching tintinnabula in Roman Britain and beyond / Adam Parker
  • Rubbing and rolling, burning and burying : the magical use of amber in Roman London / Glynn Davis
  • Linking magic and medicine in early Roman Britain : the 'Doctor's' Burial, Stanway, Camulodunum / Nicky Garland
  • The archaeology of ritual in the domestic sphere : case studies from Karanis and Pompeii / Andrew Wilburn
  • The legs, hands, head and arms race : the human body as a magical weapon in the Roman world / Stuart McKie
  • Amulets, the body and personal agency / Véronique Dasen.