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If we are to argue this, however, it cannot be on the basis of specific content; the Irish loricae are best understood as a local elaboration of the widespread rhetorical technique of creating lists as a means of producing impressive performances. It is as much the sheer use of repetition and the formal stylisation as the holy names invoked that generate the protective power of these texts; such repetition may suggest an ultimate origin in pagan defensive magical practice, but it is more likely to originate in a particular predilection in the Celtic monastic tradition for extended rhythmic liturgical performance.
Or in attempting to convert a potential, not-yet-achieved state into an actualized one” (1985, 72). Execration was not part of his agenda. 82 As is well-known, linguistic pragmatics conceives various types of utterance as performative acts, as properly intelligible only in (a specific) social context. Her starting-point therefore is that instead of concentrating on what appears on the tablet—the utterance—we should regard it as simply an aspect of a wider communicative event, the ritual, to which overt allusion may or may not be made.
2006 (Hildesheim 2008) 463–72. We might also think of the role of repeated readings at services, iterated psalms, and communally-sung hymns of doctrinal content: N. , Literacy in the Roman World. JRA Supplement 3 (Ann Arbor MI 1991) 59–76 at 73–75. Skemer 2006 is an exceptionally interesting investigation of a parallel phenomenon in the medieval Church; he can show, for example, that many of his amulets were written by members of the clergy. In early Protestant England, “the physical force of the book as object was indistinguishable from the sacred power of its words”: A.