Material Virtue: Ethics And The Body In Early China (Sinica Leidensia)

Material Virtue: Ethics And The Body In Early China (Sinica Leidensia)
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Год
 
Страниц
 
402
ISBN
 
9004141960
Издатель
 
Arsenale Editrice
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Поступления 2006 года

Содержание:

Доброй ночи, Спать ложатся дети, Спи, мой милый, Спи, баю-бай

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Book DescriptionThis book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance. Readership : All those interested in ancient magic, social and cultural history of Greco-Roman Egypt, bilingualism, intellectual history, as well as Egyptologists, classicists, historians of...

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