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You might direct your student to the volume of essays from a London
symposium on medieval seals, which will lead him to the literature on
reuse of "Abrasax" amulets in seal matrices. Solomon is a popular
subject on those amulets precisely because of his reputation as a
magician. While the matrices reusing the stones are post-eleventh
century, most of the gems themselves date from the sixth century or
before. Some members of the corpus have been found in England; can't
remember whether any of those feature Solomon. For that, see Martin
Henig's volume on gems found in England.
best,
Genevra
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Larsen" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> I have a graduate student who is working on the Anglo-Saxon poem
>> _Solomon and Saturn_. He is wondering is the Jewish image of Solomon
>> as a magician was available in Anglo-Saxon England. Are there any
>> books or articles I can point him toward?
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