Name: Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
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Author: Carlo Ginzburg
ISBN: 9780226296937

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Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath

Type

Physical Book

Author

Carlo Ginzburg

Publisher

Univ Of Chicago Pr

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

339

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0226296938

ISBN13

9780226296937

Edition No.

Synopsis "Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath "

Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

Carlo Ginzburg

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He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Pisa. An original historian, sometimes provocative, he has tried to demonstrate the limitations of certain aspects of traditional historical methodology and has established himself as one of the main representatives of the so-called "microhistory", of which The Cheese and the Worms (1976) is one of the most complete examples.

He has taught at the universities of Bologna, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and California, and his works, which include The Night Battles, The Clues about Piero, The Night History, and Wooden Eyes, have been translated into about twenty languages.

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