Overview :In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four... Read More
Overview :Historian Carlo Ginzburg uses the occasion of his Menachem Stern Lectureship to present a provocative and characteristically brilliant exami... Read More
Overview :"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 th... Read More
Overview :Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skept... Read More
Overview :Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered... Read More
Overview :The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller kn... Read More
Overview :In 1691, a Latvian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diaboli... Read More
Overview :Weaving early accounts of witchcraft-trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography-into new and startling patterns... Read More
Overview :More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a... Read More
Overview :Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These me... Read More
Overview :In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches - the Benandanti, from the no... Read More