Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / Dale B. Martin.

"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 t...

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Main Author: Martin, Dale B., 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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