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Between liturgy and magic: Minuscule texts and words of power in the early Middle Ages (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

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304 pages Manchester University Press ISBN 9781807071936
Between liturgy and magic: Minuscule texts and words of power in the early Middle Ages (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
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Between liturgy and magic

This book offers an examination of a significant number of largely unedited minuscule texts that were transcribed in the marginal spaces of manuscripts and generated by intercessory, apotropaic and healing practices in the early Middle Ages. As they were produced in different languages, these ‘words of power’ have rarely been studied as a single corpus. By placing them into dialogue, this volume allows us to see both typological similarities and cultural differences in their production across Western Europe and the Mediterranean world. The collected essays approach these texts with similar questions, while bringing methodologies and perspectives from different academic disciplines and traditions. In doing so, they provide a timely synthetic analysis of these ambiguous, often overlooked texts located in the grey zone between ‘liturgy’ and ‘magic’.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardcover
Release date
Dec 15, 2026
ISBN-13
9781807071936
ISBN-10
1807071936
Pages
304

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