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Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe (review)

Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe (review) Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft Winter 2010 Every chapter is followed by a focused bibliography, and a place index ends the work. The only weakness, more relevant to the specialized reader than the novice, is Johnston's use of secondary sources. Here there is a strong sense of nepotism. In 2001 Peter Struck of the University of Pennsylvania organized a conference on ``Greek and Roman Divination'' at which Johnston delivered ^ a paper. The presenters at that conference and its resultant publication Mantike (co-edited by Johnston) feature extremely prominently in Johnston's book. As a result, Johnston often overlooks critical work by other scholars. For example, when discussing the female body's potential for possession by deities, she cites a forthcoming work by her husband Fritz Graf (p. 45) rather than the standard work on this topic, Ruth Padel's 1983 ``Women: Model for Possession by Greek Daemons.'' Her section on gender in the cults of Apollo would have benefited by a look at Mary Voyatzis's 1998 ``From Athena to Zeus: An A­Z Guide to the Origins of Greek Goddesses,'' (which studies Apollo's adoption into the Greek pantheon through displacement of female deities). Johnston cites work as recent as 2008 (p. 141), and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft University of Pennsylvania Press

Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe (review)

Bailey, Michael David
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , Volume 5 (2) – Dec 2, 2010
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Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft Winter 2010 Every chapter is followed by a focused bibliography, and a place index ends the work. The only weakness, more relevant to the specialized reader than the novice, is Johnston's use of secondary sources. Here there is a strong sense of nepotism. In 2001 Peter Struck of the University of Pennsylvania organized a conference on ``Greek and Roman Divination'' at which Johnston delivered ^ a paper. The presenters at that conference and its resultant publication Mantike (co-edited by Johnston) feature extremely prominently in Johnston's book. As a result, Johnston often overlooks critical work by other scholars. For example, when discussing the female body's potential for possession by deities, she cites a forthcoming work by her husband Fritz Graf (p. 45) rather than the standard work on this topic, Ruth Padel's 1983 ``Women: Model for Possession by Greek Daemons.'' Her section on gender in the cults of Apollo would have benefited by a look at Mary Voyatzis's 1998 ``From Athena to Zeus: An A­Z Guide to the Origins of Greek Goddesses,'' (which studies Apollo's adoption into the Greek pantheon through displacement of female deities). Johnston cites work as recent as 2008 (p. 141), and

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