Healing traditions in Coptic magical texts
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- 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 theWithin 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.…
Autor(en): | Korshi Dosoo |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-251219 |
Dokumentart: | Artikel / Aufsatz in einer Zeitschrift |
Institute der Universität: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für Altertumswissenschaften |
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes / der Zeitschrift (Englisch): | Trends in Classics |
ISSN: | 1866-7473 |
ISSN: | 1866-7481 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
Band / Jahrgang: | 13 |
Heft / Ausgabe: | 1 |
Erste Seite: | 44 |
Letzte Seite: | 94 |
Originalveröffentlichung / Quelle: | Trends in Classics (2021) 13:1, 44-94. https://doi.org/10.1515/tc-2021-0003 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/tc-2021-0003 |
Allgemeine fachliche Zuordnung (DDC-Klassifikation): | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 932 Geschichte Ägyptens bis 640 |
Freie Schlagwort(e): | Coptic; Placebo; healing; magic; ritual |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 22.03.2022 |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 01.07.2021 |
Anmerkungen: | 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. |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |