Magical practice in the Latin West  papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005 /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Richard L. Gordon and Francisco Marco Simón. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2010. 
 - 1 online resource (xxvi, 676 p., [28] p. of plates) :  ill. 
 - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,  v. 168  0927-7633 ; .
 - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;  v. 168. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Richard Gordon and Francisco Marco Simon -- Part I. The discourse of magic -- Magus and its cognates in classical Latin / James B. Rives -- Magic in the Roman historians / Matthew W. Dickie -- Heretical texts and maleficium in the Codex Theodosianus (CTh . 16.5.34) / María Victoria Escribano Paño -- Part II. Revising the corpus -- The defixiones from the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz / Jürgen Blänsdorf -- Religion and magic at Rome : the Fountain of Anna Perenna / Marina Piranomonte -- The texts from the Fons Annae Perennae / Jürgen Blänsdorf -- Cursing a thief in Iberia and Britain / Roger Tomlin -- Prayers for justice in East and West : recent finds and publications / Henk S. Versnel -- Part III. Writing defixiones : models, language, and aims -- How does magical language work? : the spells and formulae of the Latin defixionum tabellae / Amina Kropp -- Inversion, adversion and perversion as strategies in some Latin curse tablets / Christopher Faraone and Amina Kropp -- Execrating the Roman power : three defixiones from Emporiae (Ampurias) / Francisco Marco Simón -- Part IV. Protective, eudaemonic, and divinatory magic -- Nails for the dead : a polysemic account of an ancient funerary practice / Silvia Alfayé Villa -- Magic at sea : amulets for navigation / Sabino Perea Yébenes -- A prayer for blessings on three ritual objects at Chartres-Autricum (France/Eure-et-loir) / Richard Gordon, Dominique Joly, and William van Andringa -- Mithraism and magic / Jaime Alvar Ezquerrez -- A visigothic charm from Asturias and the classical tradition of Phylacteries against hail / Francisco Javier Fernandez Nieto -- Between Orthodox belief and "superstition" in Visigothic Hispania / Isabel Velázquez Soriano -- Celtic Loricae and ancient magical charms / Pierre-Yves Lambert. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789047441397 (electronic bk.) 9047441397 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Magic--History--Europe--Congresses.<br/>Magie.<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft & Wicca
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Römisches Reich--Westprovinzen.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Kongress.<br/>Zaragoza (2005)<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF1591  / .M3444 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>133.4/3094