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Crow, Kevin Henry.

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Maleficia aut beneficia: The Roman legal tradition and late antique and early medieval attitudes concerning magic and divination (Roman Empire).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Maleficia aut beneficia: The Roman legal tradition and late antique and early medieval attitudes concerning magic and divination (Roman Empire)./
Author:	Crow, Kevin Henry.
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Directors: David Olster; Daniel Gargola.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-06A.
Subject:	History, Ancient. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3018869
ISBN:	0493289100

Maleficia aut beneficia: The Roman legal tradition and late antique and early medieval attitudes concerning magic and divination (Roman Empire).
Crow, Kevin Henry.

Maleficia aut beneficia: The Roman legal tradition and late antique and early medieval attitudes concerning magic and divination (Roman Empire). - 384 p.

Directors: David Olster; Daniel Gargola.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kentucky, 2001.

The subject of this dissertation is the relationship of Christianity to the classical world. This is a long-standing historical problem. While some think that Christianity marked a sharp break in many aspects of life, others do not. This is not a question that can be answered globally. One must be specific. In recognition of this fact we examined attitudes toward magic in the Christian and classical worlds. It is my intention to demonstrate that ancient ideas concerning magic were formative to Christian ideas and that the Roman legal tradition was central to this continuity.

ISBN: 0493289100Subjects--Topical Terms:

516261
History, Ancient.

Maleficia aut beneficia: The Roman legal tradition and late antique and early medieval attitudes concerning magic and divination (Roman Empire).
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520 $a The subject of this dissertation is the relationship of Christianity to the classical world. This is a long-standing historical problem. While some think that Christianity marked a sharp break in many aspects of life, others do not. This is not a question that can be answered globally. One must be specific. In recognition of this fact we examined attitudes toward magic in the Christian and classical worlds. It is my intention to demonstrate that ancient ideas concerning magic were formative to Christian ideas and that the Roman legal tradition was central to this continuity.
520 $a Although I focus on continuities in people's perceptions of magic, I acknowledge that certain changes did occur and that everyone at a particular time did not share the same views. I merely assert that certain assumptions and ways of seeing things were widely diffused across religions, regions and cultures and that they persisted in time.
520 $a Evidence from Roman legal documents together with ancient and late antique historical, philosophical, literary, scientific, medical and religious or semi-religious texts were used to demonstrate the central role that the Roman legal tradition played in defining magic and shaping peoples' attitudes concerning the practice. Numismatic, archeological and anthropological evidence are used in conjunction with textual and papyrological sources to clarify the cultural environment of ancient, late antique and early medieval magic and divination.
520 $a Through examining key concepts and terms and the significance given to these concepts, the evolution of attitudes concerning incantation, astrology and divination is traced from the Late Roman Republic through late antiquity. Specific instances are examined to determine the roles that the Roman legal tradition and the Christianization of the late antique world played in shaping these attitudes. The results of this study will clarify some relation between Christian and classical culture and will undermine traditional interpretations of late antique policies and attitudes concerning incantation, astrology and divination.
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