new book: Gardner, The Founder of Manichaeism
Iain Gardner, one of the world’s foremost experts on Manichaeism, has recently published with Cambridge a biography of the prophet of light himself, Mani. Here is the description from the […]
Iain Gardner, one of the world’s foremost experts on Manichaeism, has recently published with Cambridge a biography of the prophet of light himself, Mani. Here is the description from the […]
Now here is something you won’t see every day – a one-of-a-kind job posting calling for an expert in, well, everything on this website. I copy the first paragraph below, […]
A call for contributions to a collection on Roman magic can be found on the publisher’s website: the proposed title is ‘There Is No One Who Does Not Fear To Be […]
Whenever a new book on our favourite subject (Otherworldly journeys) appears, it is worth noting. John C. Stephens’ new book has ‘Medieval’ in its title, but it actually has more […]
Yoav Meyrav. Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12. A Critical Hebrew-Arabic Edition of the Surviving Textual Evidence, with an Introduction, Preliminary Studies, and a Commentary. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, Volume: 25.Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. This […]
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 The title of Radcliffe Edmond’s new book on magic in antiquity […]