This work analyses the chapter 35, book I, of the agricultural treatise Opus agriculturæ, written by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius (V C.E.). In that chapter the author presents some recipes, called remedia, to protect the farm and the garden against weeds and weather phenomena, as blight and fogs. The magical practices are identified according to both the fundamental principles of magic (similarity, contiguity, contrariety), which rule magical thought, and some elements of magical symbology. As the author seems not to distinguish magic and science, for he brings together both kinds of recipes, the analysis of some remedia emphasizes a specific study on the materials and substances employed in those recipes and their value in Science ...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...
In comparison with other technical and scientific disciplines, agriculture enjoyed a higher social a...
This article investigates the lexicon pertinent to the associative field of magic in the Galician-Po...
Blood is one of the most important and powerful elements in magical and religious symbology. As it i...
Blood is one of the most important and powerful elements in magical and religious symbology. As it i...
Aquest estudi té com a objectiu analitzar la màgia en l’agronomia a travé...
In this dissertation, I examine the magical practices of Roman farmers, primarily through the Latin ...
Ancient Agronomy and Medieval Elaboration : From Palladius to the Préceptes cisterciens d'économie r...
The aim of this paper is to explore the techniques used by the Romans to fertilize the soil between ...
The ways in which magic-religious practices are linked to supernatural powers in order to cure diffe...
L'articolo approfondisce il concetto di "Mater Tellus" (madre Terra) nel mondo romano, mettendo in l...
Written mainly between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD, agricultural texts in Latin, from ...
Marcel Mauss claims in his work A General Theory of Magic that the best way to work with the concept...
The different aspects of magic became an essential ingredient of the bucolic universe since...
Die Römer praktizierten Magie in ihrem privaten und öffentlichen Leben. Neben magische Praktiken geg...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...
In comparison with other technical and scientific disciplines, agriculture enjoyed a higher social a...
This article investigates the lexicon pertinent to the associative field of magic in the Galician-Po...
Blood is one of the most important and powerful elements in magical and religious symbology. As it i...
Blood is one of the most important and powerful elements in magical and religious symbology. As it i...
Aquest estudi té com a objectiu analitzar la màgia en l’agronomia a travé...
In this dissertation, I examine the magical practices of Roman farmers, primarily through the Latin ...
Ancient Agronomy and Medieval Elaboration : From Palladius to the Préceptes cisterciens d'économie r...
The aim of this paper is to explore the techniques used by the Romans to fertilize the soil between ...
The ways in which magic-religious practices are linked to supernatural powers in order to cure diffe...
L'articolo approfondisce il concetto di "Mater Tellus" (madre Terra) nel mondo romano, mettendo in l...
Written mainly between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD, agricultural texts in Latin, from ...
Marcel Mauss claims in his work A General Theory of Magic that the best way to work with the concept...
The different aspects of magic became an essential ingredient of the bucolic universe since...
Die Römer praktizierten Magie in ihrem privaten und öffentlichen Leben. Neben magische Praktiken geg...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...
In comparison with other technical and scientific disciplines, agriculture enjoyed a higher social a...
This article investigates the lexicon pertinent to the associative field of magic in the Galician-Po...