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Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events. More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first pu...
The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
"Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy duri...
Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
Weaving early accounts of witchcraft-trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography-into new and startling patterns, Carlo Gi...
One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history....
Nine Reflections on Distance
"I am a Jew who was born and who grew up in a Catholic country; I never had a religious education; my Jewish identity is in large measure the result o...
Machiavelli, Pascal
From the master of "micro-history" a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkers Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pasca...
Five Essays in Political Iconography
Preface and third chapter translated from the Italian by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi....
Piero della Francesca
Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and convincingly explains the contemporar...
Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti. These men and wom...
Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective
From the author of "The Cheese and the Worms" comes a quartet of luminous explorations into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis S...
A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monst...
Four Case Studies
In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments o...
Work, Legacy, Promise
Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most renowned research...
Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice
Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses of the state's case in the 20th-century...
Piero Della Francesca : the Baptism, the Arezzo Cycle, the Flagellation
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Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Whitchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the C16 and C17
Estos estudios del autor exploran los símbolos, imágenes y creencias en la historia europea. A través del juicio de una mujer acusada de brujería ...
A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world's most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the d...
the theme of forbidden knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries