Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / Dale B. Martin.
Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / Dale B. Martin.
Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / Dale B. Martin.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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2004.
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N398.4109/1
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English
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p. cm.
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1. Superstitious Christians -- 2. Problems of definition -- 3. Inventing Deisidaimonia : Theophrastus, religious etiquette, and theological optimism -- 4. Dealing with disease : the Hippocratics and the divine -- 5. Solidifying a new sensibility : Plato and Aristotle on the optimal universe -- 6. Di...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Massachusetts
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2004.
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"Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E. With reference to the writings of philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek i...
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Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / Dale B. Martin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N398.4109/1
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0674015347 (alk. paper)
9780674015340 (alk. paper)
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398.410901
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991019723429702626
