He is the author of Die Historische Rechtsschule and Georg Friedrich Puchta und die Begriffsjurisprudenz, and co-editor of the second edition of the Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte.

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for their insights at the conference roundtable discussion and the inspiration to take on the work on this volume.Special thanks go to all of the book contributors not only for their excellent chapters but also for providing comments and insights on each other's texts, which shaped the book into its final form.We want to thank the entire Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie) and the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki for their support and collaboration. Special thanks go to

This paper examines the structural elements -namely, the roles of invocation and offerings -in the love spells of the Greek magical papyri. This is achieved through an analysis of spells that invoke a specific named deity in order to see, whether an underlying formal structure uniting this group of spells can be discerned. The meaning of invocation as a structural element is studied through the work of E. Szepes, concerning the magical hymns' origin in and departure from cultic hymns. The roles of invocation, ritual offering, and sleeplessless of the victim can be isolated as separate structural elements, repeated in spell after spell.