TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dosoo, Korshi
T1  - Healing traditions in Coptic magical texts
T2  - Trends in Classics
N2  - 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. This article 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.
KW  - Placebo
KW  - healing
KW  - Coptic
KW  - magic
KW  - ritual
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25121
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-251219
SN  - 1866-7473
SN  - 1866-7481
N1  - This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
SP  - 44
EP  - 94
ER  -