The science of talismans today

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12732005
AutoresBenjamin Anderson (0000-0002-0392-2997, Cornell University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen21
Número3-4
Fecha de publicación2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hic3.12761
OpenAlexW4380075607
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas49

The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance. In the eighteenth century, European intellectual discourse rejected the talisman on physical, moral, and aesthetic grounds. Today, it has returned and forms the object of distinctive and mutually complementary programs of study in art history, anthropology, and media studies. Its primary interest lies in its account of visual form as an intelligible cause and thereby as a mediator between distinct domains of experience

Aesthetics · Arabic · Art · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology