Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts
by
Theodore de Bruyn
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice—the writing of incantations on amulets—changed in an increasingly Christian context. It considers how...