Abstract
Within the ‘market of healing’ of Christian Egypt (here broadly considered as the fourth through twelfth centuries CE), ‘magical’ practitioners represent an elusive yet recurrent category. This article explores the evidence for magical healing from three perspectives – first, literary texts which situate ‘magicians’ in competition with medical and ecclesiastical healing; second, the papyrological evidence of Coptic-language magical texts, which provide evidence for concepts of disease, wellness, and their mediation; and finally confronting the question of how these healing traditions might be understood within the methodologically materialistic framework of academic history, using the concepts of placebo and healing as a performance.
Sigla and Abbreviations
- ACM
Ancient Christian Magic = Meyer/Smith 1999.
- AKZ
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte = Kropp 1930–1931.
- BKU
Berliner Koptische Urkunden
- CC
Clavis Coptica; see https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/
- PDM/PGM
Papyri demoticae/graecae magicae = Preisendanz/Henrichs 1973–1974 & Betz 1986.
- SM
Supplementum magicum = Daniel/Maltomini 1990–1992.
- TM
Trismegistos number, see https://www.trismegistos.org
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