Agronomy and magic in ferrer saiol’s translation of palladius’s opus agriculturae Authors Raimon Sebastian-Torres Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: Roman agronomy, Roman magic, Opus agriculturae, Palladius, Ferrer Saiol. Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze magic in agronomy through the medieval Catalan translation by Ferrer Saiol of Palladius’s Opus agriculturae. First we make a review of magic in Roman agriculture, and then we present the medieval translation from the 14th century by Ferrer Saiol, protonotary of Queen Eleanor of Sicily. We study the copy of the Catalan translation – written around 1385 – which has been preserved (Valencia, Serrano Morales Municipal Library, ms. 6437). Lastly, we review a selection of passages illustrating the various magical practices developed by Palladius and how these practices are transferred to the medieval version by Saiol, specifically, those on how to combat and predict the weather, how to protect domestic animals and crops; and how to deal with pests. Taking this approach, we look into the Latin agronomic magical knowledge and how it was disseminated in the Catalan language at the end of the 14th century in the Crown of Aragon.Keywords: Roman agronomy, Roman magic, Opus agriculturae, Palladius, Ferrer Saiol. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Raimon Sebastian-Torres, Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat de Barcelona Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 47: desembre 2019 Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal QUADERNS AGRARIS, authors accept the following terms: Authors assign to ICEA (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to QUADERNS AGRARIS.Authors answer to ICEA for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.ICEA declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal QUADERNS AGRARIS is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
