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| Index | 361.3 Magica |
| Titre | Korshi Dosoo, Healing Traditions in Coptic Magical Texts. |
| Publication | Trends in Classics 13 (2021) pp. 44-94. |
| Résumé | Within the ‘market of healing’ of Christian Egypt (here broadly considered as the fourth through twelfth centuries CE), ‘magical’ practitioners represent an elusive yet recurrent category. Explores the evidence for magical healing from three perspectives - first, literary texts which situate ‘magicians’ in competition with medical and ecclesiastical healing; second, the papyrological evidence of Coptic-language magical texts, which provide evidence for concepts of disease, wellness, and their mediation; and finally confronting the question of how these healing traditions might be understood within the methodologically materialistic framework of academic history, using the concepts of placebo and healing as a performance. |
| N° | 2021-0642 |
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| Index | 241 Nil 243 |
| Titre | Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, Crossing Rivers, Confronting Crocodiles. Aquatic Space, Ambiguous Creatures, and Ascetic Life in Late Antiquity. |
| Publication | EThL 97 (2021) pp. 411-426. |
| Résumé | 1. Asceticism and aquatic space. - 2. The Nile and the fertility of the land. - 3. The ascetic gaze. - 4. The agency of water. - 5. The challenge of crocodiles. - 6. Wilderness and aquatic space. - Conclusion. |
| N° | 2021-0643 |
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| Index | 146 340 540 750 |
| Titre | Christina Gousopoulos, Sub-Elite Readers and the Transmission of Christian Literary Texts. |
| Publication | EThL 97 (2021) pp. 37-59, fig. |
| Résumé | 1. The archive of Akousilaos, σιτολόγος δημόσιος of Lysimachis [recording Greek literature on re-used documents]. - 2. The social network of Akousilaos. - 3. Akousilaos as a "free reader" [the newly literate sub-elite people who emerged at the commencement of the Roman Empire]. - 4. Concluding remarks: a viable model for Christian text diffusion. |
| N° | 2021-0644 |
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| Index | 361.3 Magica |
| Titre | Anne Grons, The Question of the Effectiveness of Coptic Pharmacological Prescriptions. |
| Publication | Trends in Classics 13 (2021) pp. 122-153. |
| Résumé | Coptic pharmacological texts offer a multitude of medical prescriptions concerning various afflictions, such as eye or skin irritations, affections of the viscera, or even psychological complaints. The content of these texts is medical, and in most cases bereft of any magical or religious ideas. They usually compile prescriptions according to symptoms and / or afflictions, without any further organising principle. Only a handful of texts are grouped according to the illness or to the medicinal plants used. Almost every prescription follows a pattern, with four formal elements: 1) the medical indication (or purpose), 2) the (basic) ingredients, 3) the procedure and application, and 4) the effects and / or the effectiveness of a remedy, or further information. Gives an overview of the entire corpus of Coptic medical prescriptions, explores the four main elements, and especially the discussions of efficacy. Examines the material in light of placebo research, to see whether something like a placebo effect may have influenced how the pharmacological texts were formulated. |
| N° | 2021-0645 |
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| Index | 714 860 |
| Titre | Magdalena Łaptaś, Byzantine influence on Nubian painting: the loroi and the gender of the Archangels. |
| Publication | BZ 114 (2021) pp. 239-254. |
| Résumé | The conversion of the Nubian Kingdoms, by the missions sent from Constantinople in the sixth century, was followed by Byzantine influence on Nubian art. One of the most obvious examples of this process was representing archangels dressed in loroi. This paper aims to present the evolution of loroi in Nubian art. In Byzantium, they were ceremonial stoles worn on special occasions by the emperors or the highest dignitaries. The archangels were also clad in loroi, acting as high officials at the celestial court. Interestingly, loroi were adopted only for the images of archangels in Nubia, not for the images of Nubian kings. |
| N° | 2021-0646 |
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| Index | 364 Liturgica 714 |
| Titre | Ágnes T. Mihálykó, Healing in Christian Liturgy in Late Antique Egypt: Sources and Perspectives. |
| Publication | Trends in Classics 13 (2021) pp. 154-194. |
| Résumé | Health and healing were of constant interest for Christian communities in late antique Egypt. Accordingly, a broad range of therapeutic rituals were on offer by the clergy, by monks, and in martyr shrines. Of all these, explores prayers and gestures performed and substances consecrated in a liturgical context as well as some related practices, with a focus on the fourth and fifth centuries, from which most relevant sources hail. Besides reconstructing the rites themselves as far as the evidence allows - including intercessions for the sick, prayers for laying on of hands, and the consecration of oil (and water and bread) and the anointing of the sick in various liturgical contexts -, also considers them as interpersonal therapeutic rituals and attempt to evaluate them through the lens of medical and anthropological placebo theories. Argues that the decline and transformation of liturgical healing rites after the fifth century may partially be explained with their modest ‘placebogenic potential’ compared to other rites on offer in the late antique ‘market of healing’. |
| N° | 2021-0647 |
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| Index | 145.4 670 |
| Index bis | 145.4 P. Oxy. IV, 837 descr. |
| Titre | Maria Nowak, Will of Apollos Daughter of Paesis from Oxyrhynchos. |
| Publication | ZSav 138 (2021) pp. 543-554. |
| Résumé | The article is a re-edition of a papyrus published in the fourth volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri as a descriptum. It is a second-century will made for a female testator in Oxyrhynchos. One of the dispositions preserved in this text draws attention as it resembles the Roman legatum per praeceptionem, although the will was made for a peregrine. |
| N° | 2021-0648 |
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| Index | 364 Epistulae 754 |
| Titre | Antonio Ricciardetto, The vocabulary of care and healing in the Greek private letters of Byzantine Egypt. |
| Publication | Trends in Classics 13 (2021) pp. 227-253. |
| Résumé | Amid the corpus of Greek papyri discovered in the sands of Egypt, some fifty letters dated from the end of the 3rd century CE to the 7th century refer to a disease which afflicts an animal or a private individual - either the sender or the recipient of the letter, or to a third party. Seventeen of these also provide details on care and healing. How do these seventeen letters, which ostensibly do not derive from the medical world, describe the evolution of a disease, and especially its outcome when it is fortunate for the sick person? What are the healing strategies implemented by these individuals? |
| N° | 2021-0649 |
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| Index | 141.4 630 |
| Index bis | 141.4 P. Cair. Inv. SR 3049 (138) |
| Titre | Ibrahim Mohamed El Said Mohamed Abdou, A List of Payments for Rent and Tax. |
| Publication | Classical Papers [Ain Shams] 18 (2021) pp. 25-39, fig. |
| Résumé | Theadelpheia?, VII Cent. A.D. |
| N° | 2021-0650 |
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| Index | 364 Magica |
| Titre | Panagiota Sarischouli, Hope for Cure and the Placebo Effect: The Case of the Greco-Egyptian Iatromagical Formularies. |
| Publication | Trends in Classics 13 (2021) pp. 254-284. |
| Résumé | Focuses on healing rituals from Greco-Roman Egypt, where medicine and religion were inextricably linked to each other and further connected to the art of magic. The majority of healing spells or other types of iatromagical papyri dating from the Roman period are written in Demotic, following a long tradition of ancient Egyptian curative magic. The extant healing rituals written in Greek also show substantial Egyptian influence in both methodological structure and motifs, thus confirming the widely accepted assumption that many features of Greco-Egyptian magic were actually inherited from their ancient antecedents. |
| N° | 2021-0651 |