Open AccessTrattati metabizantini di magia sulla vita Coniugale (BIEE 223 ff. 84r-85v; 210 ff. 37r-v, 63r-v, 82v)
Author(s) -
Salvatore Costanza
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta/zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0917
pISSN - 0584-9888
DOI - 10.2298/zrvi1754303c
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , formulary , relation (database) , order (exchange) , opera , art , humanities , history , classics , literature , medicine , computer science , family medicine , database , finance , economics
The article presents magical prayers employed in post-Byzantine manuscripts from Athenian Library of Historical and Ethnological Association of 18th-19th centuries, in order to ensure protection against impotence and a happy coupledom. Here, biblical and liturgical texts are often quoted in closer relation to official life of Greek-Orthodoxe Church. A formulary shows not trivial knowledge of medical plants and their uses, especially with anxiolytic effects.