{"product_id":"ancient-magic-attilio-mastrocinque-9783515127967","title":"Ancient Magic: Then and Now","description":"An international team of scholars from different academic disciplines address some of the most important issues, texts, and objects in the study of ancient magic. The volume is divided into three primary sections. The first part offers new approaches to some of the major theoretical and methodological questions in the study of ancient magic. Most importantly, the authors offer a defense of the term \"magic\" as a scholarly rubric in the study of antiquity. The contributors to the second part provide novel interpretations of some of the most significant \u003cb\u003edefixiones\u003c\/b\u003e, amulets, recipes and rituals from the ancient world. The essays also engage with questions of gender, materiality, visuality, and scribal practice. The final section examines the transmission of magical practice, both in antiquity and in later periods. Accordingly, the chapters in this final section allow scholars to approach the study of magic over the\u003cb\u003e longue duree\u003c\/b\u003e. By placing into dialogue the interests, concerns, and methods of scholars from diverse academic fields, this volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of premodern magic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Attilio Mastrocinque\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3515127968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783515127967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Attilio Mastrocinque","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48066385543423,"sku":"9783515127967","price":144.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b723d212-f750-44f7-afbc-299fcc9ab27c.jpg?v=1768678196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ancient-magic-attilio-mastrocinque-9783515127967","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}