Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Making amulets Christian : artefacts, scribes, and contexts / Theodore de Bruyn.
Author
De Bruyn, Theodore
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xx, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
BR195 .A44 2017
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Amulets, Greek
—
Egypt
[Browse]
Church history
—
Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
[Browse]
Magic
—
Religious aspects
—
Christianity
[Browse]
Incantations
[Browse]
Series
Oxford early Christian studies
[More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and indexes.
Contents
Normative Christian Discourse
Materials, Format, and Writing
Manuals of Procedures and Incantations
Scribal Features of Customary Amulets --Scribal Features of Scriptural Amulets
Christian Ritual Contexts.
Show 2 more Contents items
ISBN
9780199687886 ((hardcover))
0199687889 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016962751
OCLC
969981212
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information