A New Book on Græco-Roman Magic Reviewed
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 […]
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A new book on Roman material culture for magic
The study of the material culture of magic is sort of the new frontier, as people have worked over the literary remains of antique magical traditions with a pretty fine-toothed […]
Another New Book on Ancient Magic Reviewed!
New publications on magic in antique societies are coming thick and fast at the moment (or at least thick and fast for such a generally-overlooked field of study). David Frankfurter […]
New Book on Ancient Magic Reviewed
There is a review by Adam Parker of the following new book — which is more of a collection of discrete essays by a single author: Lindsay Watson, Magic in […]
New Book Scrutinising Ancient Voces Magicæ Reviewed
Our subscribers may know of the CENOB database — that’s Corpus des énoncés des noms barbares — an attempt to put together something like a definitive list of every unintelligible […]
CfP for Conference on Mediæval Faith, Heresy, and Magic
CALL FOR PAPERS for the joint session of the study group “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” (AGSFM) and study group “Christian Archaeology” (AGCA) at the 10th German Archaeology Congress […]
Conference: Magic in Late Antiquity. Objects, Texts and Contexts Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, March 1-3, 2020
Organised by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger, Gideon Bohak, and Yakir Paz, this looks like a good one! Check out the schedule, which we are giving in full here as there’s no obvious […]
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