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• Author(s): Marvin Meyer | Paul Mirecki • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Magick StudiesThis volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays ...

• Author(s): Paul Mirecki • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: HistoryThis volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The strength of the present volum...

• Author(s): Ira Livingston • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralMagic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Thr...

• Author(s): Farouk Yahya • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: History - GeneralThis book offers an integrated study of the texts and images in illustrated Malay manuscripts on magic and divination from private and public collec...

• Author(s): Richard L. Gordon • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: HistoryMost studies of Graeco-Roman magic focus on the Greek texts. Stimulated by important recent finds of Latin curse-tablets, this collection of essays for t...

• Author(s): J. F. Borghouts | J. F. Borghouts • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralNow back in print after 25 years: A small but unusually exhaustive collection of magical texts from some of the most im...

• Author(s): Nicole Baumgarten | Inke Du Bois | Juliane House • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsSubjectivity in Language and in Discourse deals with the linguistic encoding and discursive construction ...