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Agency: How Manuscripts Affect and Create Social Realities
Edited by Michael Kohs and Sabine Kienitz
Contents and Contributors1
by Michael Kohs and Sabine Kienitz
Introduction
Agency: How Manuscripts Affect and Create Social Realities
2 by Michael Kohs and Sabine Kienitz
Section I: Manuscripts as Magical Agents
Manuscripts as Magical Agents: A General Outline
8 by Michael Kohs
Paper Wheels with Strings Used for Divination from Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula
31by Farouk Yahya
Textual Amulets in Context: Was the Early Modern German Manuscript Mscr. Dresd. M 206 Used as a Magical Agent?
55by Marco Heiles
Can Miniature Qur'ans Be Considered Magical Agents?
81by Cornelius Berthold
‘…even the bravest person has his own little superstition.’ On the Material Nature and Magical Purpose of Heavenly Letters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
102by Sabine Kienitz
Malleable Magic: Medieval Arabic Block Printed Amulets and their Audiences
149by Karl Schaefer
Section II: Manuscripts Shaping Communities
Following a Form: The Transmission Path of a Graphic Artefact in a Compensation Procedure in the Post-was German Fiscal Administration
168by Sina Sauer
Customised Manuscripts to Shape a Community of Readers? Overbeck's Collection of Rental Manuscripts from Palembang (Indonesia)
183by Jan van der Putten
Baiben Zhang (Hundred Volumes Zhang): A Scribal Publisher in Nineteenth-century Beijing
195by Zhenzhen Lu