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Calling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies

Strategies of Human-Divine Communication in the Roman Empire from Individual Experience to Social Reproduction
Book on DemandKartoniert, Paperback
468 Seiten
Englisch
Peter Langerschienen am27.06.2024
Calling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies analyses the micro and macro strategies employed in the Roman World for communication with the supernatural. From lexical to physical utterances, from socializing materiality to personal appropriation, the chapters of this book demonstrate the variety and performative creativity of Roman religions.mehr

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KlappentextCalling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies analyses the micro and macro strategies employed in the Roman World for communication with the supernatural. From lexical to physical utterances, from socializing materiality to personal appropriation, the chapters of this book demonstrate the variety and performative creativity of Roman religions.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-0343-4456-2
ProduktartBook on Demand
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum27.06.2024
Seiten468 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht601 g
Illustrationen17 Abb.
Artikel-Nr.56464550

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of contents - Introduction - Divine Onomastic Attributes in the Greco-Roman World. Proposal for a New Taxonomy - Artemis Iphigenia and Artemis Calliste: A Comparative Study - Communicating Jupiter - ãAnimal Sacrifice, Vernacular Language and Code-Switching: Adressing the Gods in Lusitanian - Augustus, Regina and Dominus. Epithets of Power as a Way to Call Upon Gods in Roman Hispania - Women´s Choice. Divine Epithets in the Female Epigraphic Record in Hispania - Religious Negotiation in Polysemic Contexts and the Religious Characterisation of Socius in Imperial Epigraphy - Calling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies and the Antonine Plague - ÎÏλοÏÏÏεÏοι καὶ νέοι: children´s bodies and voices, and prophetic mediumship between Paganism and Christianity.- Angels or daemones? Angelic worship and magic in the Latin West during Late Antiquity: The example of the Visigothic slates - The Message of Martyrdom: Saint Vincent in Late-Antique Sermons - Hic martyr est Salsa. Holy Bodies and their Meaning for the Veneration of Saints in North Africa. The Case of Salsa of Tipasa - Shaping a saint from relics in early Medieval England: Oswald of Northumbria as a hagiographical model - The Saint, the Empire, and the Crowds between θέαμα and θαῦμα. The Life of Daniel the Stylite as a Case Study - Transgender dynamics in Early Christianity asceticism: rereading hagiographies of cross-dressed saints´ - Aedem vovit. The Military votum as a Religious Communication Strategy - The "Superstition" of a Few Litentious, Emperor Julian and Alexandria: A Case of Religious Normalisation? - Divine Objects scapesmehr

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Autor

Antón Alvar Nuño is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Málaga (Spain). He has specialized in the study of ancient magic and religion from a bottom-up perspective.

Clelia Martínez Maza is full professor of Ancient History at University of Málaga. Her main research lines are: Religions in Late Antiquity with a particular interest in the relationship between Christianity and pre-Christian religions, Christianization of the Roman Empire, and Women's Religious Life in Antiquity. She has published more than 100 publications in national and international publishers of recognized impact.

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra is Professor of Ancient History, specialized on Roman Polytheism. He is corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia and of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
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