Byzantine Magic

Henry Maguire, editor

About this book

Contents

Henry Maguire, Introduction

Matthew W. Dickie, The Fathers of the Church and the Evil Eye

James Russell, The Archaeological Context of Magic in the Early Byzantine Period

Henry Maguire, Magic and the Christian Image

Alexander Kazhdan, Holy and Unholy Miracle Workers

John Duffy, Reactions of Two Byzantine Intellectuals to the Theory and Practice of Magic: Michael Psellos and Michael Italikos

Marie Theres Fögen, Balsamon on Magic: From Roman Secular Law to Byzantine Canon Law

Richard P. H. Greenfield, A Contribution to the Study of Palaeologan Magic

Robert Mathiesen, Magic in Slavia Orthodoxa: The Written Tradition

Abbreviations and Index

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