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To browse Academia. The Materiality of Magic is an exciting new book about an aspect of magic that is usually neglected. In the last two decades we have had many books and proceedings of conferences on the concept of magic itself as well as its history, formulas and incantations in antiquity, both in East and West. Much less attention, however, has been paid to the material that was used by the magicians for their conjuring activities.
This is the first book of its kind that focuses on the material aspects of magic, such as amulets, drawings, figurines, gems, grimoires, rings, and voodoo dolls. The practice of magic required a specialist expertise that knew how to handle material such as lead, gold, stones, papyrus and terra cotta—material that sometimes was used for specific genres of magic. That is why we present in this well illustrated collection of studies new insights on the materiality of magic in antiquity by studying both the materials used for magic as well as the books in which the expertise was preserved.
The main focus of the book is on antiquity, but we complement and contrast our material with examples ranging from the Ancient Near East, via early modern Europe, to the present time. Jan N. Alexander Hollmann. Joseph E Sanzo. Annewies van den Hoek. Carla Sfameni. The main source about magic in Late Antiquity is offered by the Greek Magical Papyri, a group of texts that that have been considered a kind of handbook for magicians. The "recipes" of the papyri require the use of plants, food and beverages for the rituals, but also of particular objects such as rings and gems, lanyards, wax figurines, cups, lamps, tablets with inscriptions.
If no trace obviously remains of the objects made of perishable materials, with very few exceptions, we can recognize the function of some archaeological items that could also be used for magic purposes like bricks, lamps, pottery, figurines and, above all, amulets and curse tablets. Strictly linked to the Magical Papyri are in particular the so-called magical gems, semiprecious stones engraved with figures of various deities.
