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The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Product Description
Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles is a remarkable tale of witchcraft, folk culture, and persuasion in early modern Europe.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #280639 in Books
- Published on: 1992-03-01
- Original language: Italian
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 232 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"A tour-de-force of reconstruction, building out of scattered and fragmentary sources a whole world for the reader to inhabit." -- Anthony Pagden, London Review of Books
"A work of genuine intellectual distinction. It is an unusually original contribution to the study of witchcraft in early modern Europe, but its importance is far from being exhausted by that description." -- Peter Burke, New York Review of Books
Customer Reviews
An important book in the historiography of witchcraft
Ginzburg's research on the benandanti was path-breaking when it first appeared in the 1960's. It has become a classic, a required read for any student of history who is interested in the topic of the early modern European witch hunts. Ginzburg reconstructs a narrative in which the notion of what it was to be a "witch" was fundamentally changed by the Friulian peasants' encounters with the Inquisition.
this book kicks ass!
this work is extremely mind provoking...bringing to question not only who the benandanti were, but also what their purpose was in a society which bore a quite rigid definition of witches. ginzburg does a marvelous job of uniting various archive sources and creating, if you will, an artistic reality to witches in the early europe of the 16th and 17th centuries.
