Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity

Acknowledgments and Credits

Abbreviations

General Introduction

Part I: Magic and the Materiality of Religion in Late Antiquity

1. Female Figurines in Early Christian Egypt
2. Fetus Magic and Sorcery Fears in Roman Egypt
3. Scorpion/Demon
4. The Supernatural Vulnerabilities of Domestic Space in Late Antique Egypt
5. The Binding of Antelopes

Part II: Charisma and its Mediation in Landscape and Charms

6.Stylites and Phallobates
7. The Cult of the Martyrs in Egypt before Constantine
8. Voices, Books, and Dreams
9. Where the Spirits Dwell
10. Dynamics of Ritual Expertise in Antiquity and Beyond
11. Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism
12. Charismatic Textuality and the Mediation of Christianity in Late Antique Egypt
13. The Social Context of Women's Erotic Magic in Antiquity
14. 'As I twirl this spindle, . . .'

Part III: Fantasies and Ideologies of Religious Violence
15. Lest Egypt's City Be Deserted
16. 'Things Unbefitting Christians'
17. Iconoclasm and Christianization in Late Antique Egypt
18. Horrors of the Inner Chamber
19. On Sacrifice and Residues
20 Martyrology and the Purient Gaze
21. Religion in the Mirror of the Other

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Figurine; demon; magic; stylite; martyr; martyrology; divination; spirit-possession; ritual expertise; holy man; iconoclasm; hagiography; sacrifice