000168711 001__ 168711 000168711 005__ 20260217214838.0 000168711 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1558/jch.24365 000168711 0248_ $$2sideral$$a136972 000168711 037__ $$aART-2023-136972 000168711 041__ $$aeng 000168711 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-8420-3504$$aSánchez Natalías, Celia$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000168711 245__ $$aFearing the Gods? 000168711 260__ $$c2023 000168711 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000168711 5203_ $$aAfter some introductory remarks on current approaches to curse tablets, this article focuses on the defixiones from Britannia, analyzing the idiosyncratic features of this corpus to demonstrate how the island’s inhabitants adopted and then adapted this magico-religious technology. In particular, it examines a group of curses in which the name of the practitioner is clearly stated. This specific piece of information has been understood by previous scholarship as a reflection of the fearlessness that these practitioners (who were supposedly asking for something fair) felt towards the gods. Nevertheless, this article interprets the use of names as a reflection of the perception that these practitioners had of the god’s omniscience. Additionally, this research also takes into account the context where these artefacts were deposited and the array of rituals that took place in those spaces. Tellingly, most of the curse tablets from Britannia with this feature (i.e. the name of the practitioner) come from sanctuaries and shrines, a context that could have promoted different ways for practitioners to conceive of the cursing ritual and the types of relationship that it created between the author of the curse and the invoked deity. 000168711 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/RTI2018-098339-J-I00 000168711 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 000168711 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000168711 7102_ $$13000$$2445$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed.$$cÁrea Historia Antigua 000168711 773__ $$g8, 1-2 (2023), 94-114$$tJournal of Cognitive Historiography$$x2051-9672 000168711 8564_ $$s288208$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/168711/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint 000168711 8564_ $$s1466908$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/168711/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint 000168711 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:168711$$particulos$$pdriver 000168711 951__ $$a2026-02-17-20:13:59 000168711 980__ $$aARTICLE