MIRABILIA: MIRACULOUS AND MAGICAL ON THE ANCIENT ROOTS OF THE CONCEPT APPARATUS
MIRABILIA: MIRACULOUS AND MAGICAL ON THE ANCIENT ROOTS OF THE CONCEPT APPARATUS
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, History of ideas, Ancient World, Cultural Anthropology / EthnologyPublished by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Mirabilia; Miracles; Magic; Magical; Supernatural;
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to analyze and systematize the movement and development of concepts integrated into the problematic situation Mirabilia: Miraculous and Magical. The analysis focuses on the ancient roots of the concept apparatus in various genre forms from Homer to the Middle Ages. Studies in the semantic field of “miracles” (mirabilia or miracula) and the “miraculous” whose context generates the “magic” and the “magical” presuppose several levels of investigation, among them being that of lexical analysis and conceptual precisions, defining the concepts of the “supernatural” and of “magic” and “magical”, as well as their related concepts.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-23
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
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