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At the crossroads of ritual practice and anti-magical discourse in late antiquity : taxonomies of licit and illicit rituals in Leiden, Ms. AMS 9 and related sources
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Sanzo, Joseph E. (2019) At the crossroads of ritual practice and anti-magical discourse in late antiquity : taxonomies of licit and illicit rituals in Leiden, Ms. AMS 9 and related sources. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 14 (2). pp. 230-254. doi:10.1353/mrw.2019.0017 ISSN 1556-8547.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2019.0017
Abstract
There are cases in which the worlds of ritual practice and fierce anti-magical invective intersect. This paper focuses on one of the clearest examples of such intersection during late antiquity: Leiden, Ms. AMS 9 (a.k.a. P. Anastasy 9) – a late-antique Coptic codex with spells for exorcism, healing, and protection, which simultaneously engages in fierce rhetoric against illicit rituals. By highlighting the ways the practitioner behind this codex navigated the distinction between licit and illicit ritual in light of his late antique Mediterranean contexts, this paper also seeks to make a broader statement about anti-magic invective during late antiquity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Other > Institute of Advanced Study | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1556-8547 | ||||||
Official Date: | 24 December 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 230-254 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/mrw.2019.0017 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 July 2019 | ||||||
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