Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages.(Book review)

Church History | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages. By Don C. Skemer. Magic in History Series. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. viii + 328 pp. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

In its rich array of medieval amulets, Binding Words has the air of a sumptuous museum exhibition. From the crudest inscribed rhyme to the illuminated scroll, all are documented and described in a way that only a curator of manuscripts like Don Skemer could do. Skemer takes seriously the ideas--well known to classicists, historians, and anthropologists working on ...

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