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Chapter 7 - Making Magic Happen

Understanding Drugs As Therapeutic Substances in Later Byzantine Sorcery and Beyond

from Part II - The Borders of Pharmacology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

By
Richard Greenfield
Edited by
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos  and
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Affiliation:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Affiliation:
University of Cyprus
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Summary

When grappling with the extremely uncertain world in which they lived, Byzantine people felt able to choose within a pluralistic mixture of practices and a distinctly diverse set of attitudes, theories, and methodologies. Thinking about ‘drugs’ in Byzantine magic thus involves an exploration of one small part of the fluid spectrum of possible responses that were open to people faced with ill health. Although modern scholars may once have considered these responses under such discrete headings as rational, spiritual, and magical, it is now widely recognised that such distinctions are not applicable. What constituted a drug for the Byzantines, how it was thought to work, and how it might be administered seem to have involved a considerably broader conceptual framework and range of practice than our own. Looking at specific examples of the use of ‘therapeutic substances’ in later Byzantine magic may help us understand this difference.

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magicdrugsByzantine/Mediterranean pharmacologypluralismtherapeutic substancesfumigationcontagionamulets
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Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean
Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge
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