RT Book
T1 Making amulets Christian: artefacts, scribes, and contexts
T2 Oxford early christian studies
A1 De Bruyn, Theodore
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1630031623
AB Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice-the writing of incantations on amulets-changed in an increasingly Christian context. It considers how the formulation of incantations and amulets changed as the Christian church became the prevailing religious institution in Egypt in the last centuries of the Roman empire. Theodore de Bruyn investigates what can we learn from incantations and amulets containing Christian elements about the cultural and social location of the people who wrote them. He shows how incantations and amulets were indebted to rituals or ritualizing behaviour of Christians. This study analyzes different types of amulets and the ways in which they incorporate Christian elements. By comparing the formulation and writing of individual amulets that are similar to one another, one can observe differences in the culture of the scribes of these materials. It argues for 'conditioned individuality' in the production of amulets. On the one hand, amulets manifest qualities that reflect the training and culture of the individual writer. On the other hand, amulets reveal that individual writers were shaped, whether consciously or inadvertently, by the resources they drew upon-by what is called 'tradition' in the field of religious studies
NO Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
CN BR195
SN 9780199687886
K1 Church History : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Magic : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Incantations
K1 Amulets, Greek : Egypt