Contributors

Andras Bacskay

is Senior Lecturer at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, where he is a member of the Faculty of the Ancient History. He received his PhD in History from the Eotvos Lorand University in 2008.

Anne E. Bailey

gained her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2010, and is currently based at the University’s Faculty of History and tutors at the Department of Continuing Education. She has taught medieval and early modern history at Oxford and Exeter, and has published widely on the subject of medieval mira­cle stories, saints’ cults and pilgrimage.

Alessia Bellusci

has recently completed her PhD program in Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Based on a thorough analysis of unpublished Genizah fragments and other relevant Jewish texts, her doctoral research focused on the history of a specific oneiric magical technique, the She’elat Halom (dream request), as practised and transmitted within late antique and medieval oriental Jewish communities.

Siam Bhayro

is Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. He received his PhD from University College London in 2000, and has held posi­tions at the University of Sheffield, Yale University, University College London and the University of Cambridge. His research focusses on the Bible, Semitic languages, early Judaism, medical history, and magic.

Harman Bhogal

completed her PhD (Birkbeck, University of London) in 2013. Her thesis inves­tigated the impact of the John Darrel controversy on demonological thought in post-Reformation England, concentrating on The Dialogicall discourses of spirits and diuels by John Deacon and John Walker. She has since kept abreast of the field of intellectual history in the early modern period, and is particu­larly interested in the history of mentalities and the history of the perception of the supernatural.

Gideon Bohak

teaches at Tel Aviv University, and focuses on the history of Jewish magic and on the magical, mystical, and related texts from the Cairo Genizah. His most recent books include Ancient Jewish Magic: A History (2008) and A Fifteenth­Century Manuscript of Jewish Magic (2014, in Hebrew). His many articles are devoted to the publication and analysis of new texts, and to programmatic dis­cussions of Jewish magic and Jewish history.

Chiara Crosignani

completed her PhD at the University of Salerno in 2013 with a dissertation on early Christian demonology. She then continued her studies with a post­doctoral fellowship from Accademia dei Lincei on the demonology of the first century CE. Her main interests are Origen, early Christian authors and demon­ology in the Mediterranean region in the first centuries CE.

M. Carolina Escobar-Vargas

is Lecturer in Medieval History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is co-author of Magic and Medieval Society (2014) and her work focuses on the topic of magic in the Central Middle Ages. In 2011 she completed her PhD the­sis, ‘The Image and Reality of the Magician Figure in Twelfth-Century England', at the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading, UK.

Ida Frohlich

received her PhD in 1984 (Oriental Institute of the Academy of the USSR, St. Petersburg/Leningrad) and her DSc in 2002 (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). She is Professor of Hebrew and Ancient Near Eastern History at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, and publishes widely in the fields of Second Temple period Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Festschrift in her honour, With Wisdom as a Robe, was published in 2009.

Sebastia Giralt

is Senior Lecturer of Classics (Latin) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. His research focusses on medieval medicine, magic and astrology, and he has edited and analysed Latin works on practical medicine and occultism attributed to Arnau de Vilanova. He also researches the scholastic reception of magic and divination, as well as magical and astrological texts in Romance languages.

David Hamidovic

is Full Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and holds the chair in ‘Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in Antiquity'. He received his PhD in History of Antiquity from Sorbonne University, Paris, and has published many books and articles in ancient Judaism, especially on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Peregrine Horden

is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on the history of the Mediterranean and of medieval medicine and hospitals.

Pierre Kapitaniak

is Professor of Early Modern British Civilisation at the University of Montpellier. He works on Elizabethan drama and on the conception, perception and rep­resentation of supernatural phenomena from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Together with Jean Migrenne, he is translating early modern demo­nological treatises, and has already published James vi's Demonologie (2010) and Reginald Scot's La sorcellerie demystifiee (2015).

Gina Konstantopoulos

received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in 2015, focusing on Sumerian literature and the place of demons and monsters in Mesopotamia. Currently a visiting assistant professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, her research centres on the construction of fictional lands in the ancient Near East.

Rita Lucarelli

received her PhD from Leiden University, the Netherlands. She has worked extensively with ancient Egyptian funerary literature and was part of the ‘Book of the Dead Project' of Bonn University, Germany. She is currently Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is completing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt.

Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe

is Lecturer in Patristics in the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Peterhouse. Her research interests revolve around the religious thought and culture of Late Antiquity, and in particular ideas of evil, demons, and Satan.

Bradley J. Mollmann

is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Tulane University, USA. His work focuses on the cultural history of early modern Spain, and he is particularly interested in the overlapping histories of religion, medicine, and natural philosophy. He is currently completing a dissertation entitled ‘Medical Heresies of Early Modern Spain: Faith, Reason, and the Persecution of Superstitious Healing'.

Lauri Ockenstrom

is a post-doctoral researcher of the Academy of Finland at the University of Jyvaskyla. He received his doctorate in Art History in 2014 from Jyvaskyla University. His post-doctoral project (imafor) focuses on magical imageries transmitted in Latin manuals in Europe (1100-1650). He is currently composing a Finnish translation of Vitruvius' De architectura.

Catherine Rider

is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the history of magic, popular religion, medicine and marriage in the later Middle Ages. Her publications include Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (2006) and Magic and Religion in Medieval England (2012). She is currently working on medieval attitudes to infertility and childlessness.

Liana Saif

is British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford (St Cross College). Her current project is entitled ‘On the Margins of Orthodoxy: Magic in Medieval Islam'. She is also interested in the exchange of occult and esoteric ideas between the Islamic World and the Latin West in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and is author of The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy (2015).

Sophie Sawicka-Sykes

received her BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge in 2010 and com­pleted an MPhil in medieval literature at Cambridge the following year. In 2015, she graduated with a PhD in history from the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research focuses on changes in ideas about divine song from Late Antiquity to the end of the eleventh century.

Claire Trenery

is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research into representations of madness in English miracle collections from the long twelfth century is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Lorenzo Verderame

is Professor of Assyriology at Sapienza—Università di Roma, where he teaches Sumerian and Akkadian languages and literatures. His main research interests are divination and third millennium administrative texts, as well as other topics in Mesopotamian religion and material culture. Among his seven books are an overview of Mesopotamian literature (2016) and a volume on Mesopotamian demons (2011).