Author: Eduard Stemplinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Antike und Moderne Volksmedizin
Author: Eduard Stemplinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Antike und moderne Volksmedizin
American Journal of Archaeology
Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Author: Owen Davies
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319595199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319595199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.
The Year's Work in Classical Studies
Author: Classical Association (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical education
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical education
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Science, Folklore and Ideology
Author: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9781853996030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority of the female sex on medical practice, pharmacology and anatomy. Anthropology is used to provide a comparative dimension to the discussion of ancent Greek popular beliefs.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9781853996030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority of the female sex on medical practice, pharmacology and anatomy. Anthropology is used to provide a comparative dimension to the discussion of ancent Greek popular beliefs.
The Science of Folk-Lore
Author: Alexander Haggerty Krappe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429871112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously working in the legacy of Savigny and the Brothers Grimm, the author explored the unrecorded traditions found within popular fiction, custom, belief, magic and ritual, attempting a reconstruction of humanity’s spiritual history through popular rather than elite voices. The work was intended to prove useful to scholars of related fields to folk-lore, with hopes of eventual interdisciplinarity.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429871112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously working in the legacy of Savigny and the Brothers Grimm, the author explored the unrecorded traditions found within popular fiction, custom, belief, magic and ritual, attempting a reconstruction of humanity’s spiritual history through popular rather than elite voices. The work was intended to prove useful to scholars of related fields to folk-lore, with hopes of eventual interdisciplinarity.
A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal
Author: Edward Courtney
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1939926025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
"Reprint, with minor correction, of the first edition first published 1980 by the Athlone Press, London, UK"-- t.p. verso.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1939926025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
"Reprint, with minor correction, of the first edition first published 1980 by the Athlone Press, London, UK"-- t.p. verso.
Studies in the New Testament
Author: J. Duncan M. Derrett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004074781
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004074781
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Isis
Author: George Sarton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
"Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
"Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.