<p>Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witchesâ€™ sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into their enemies â€“ the witches. Carlo Ginzburg shows clearly how this transformation of the popular notion of witchcraft was manipulated by the Inquisitors, and disseminated all over Europe and even to the New World. The peasantsâ€™ fragmented and confused testimony reaches us with great immediacy, enabling us to identify a level of popular belief which constitutes a valuable witness for the reconstruction of the peasant way of thinking of this age. </p>

The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries

Carlo Ginzburg

History

Penguin??Books

Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Religion & Spirituality

John & Anne Tedeschi [translators]

Occult & Paranormal

Europe

Johns Hopkins University Press

The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft): Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft)

Routledge

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Chinese Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Guangxi Normal University Press

Pesquisa Sobre Piero (Spanish Edition)

Claude Chevreuil

EL ALEPH

Para explorar las múltiples relaciones entre la verdad histórica, lo falso y la ficción, Carlo Ginzburg indaga en temas muy heterogéneos: judíos de Menoría y caníbales brasileños, chamanes y anticuarios, romances medievales, los Protocolos de los sabios de Sión, la fotografía y la muerte, Voltaire, Stendhal, Flaubert, Auerbach, Kracauer, Montaigne. Contra la tendencia del escepticismo posmoderno a difuminar la frontera entre narraciones de ficción y narraciones históricas, el autor aborda esta relación como una disputa por la representación de la realidad, un conflicto hecho de desafíos, préstamos recíprocos e hibridaciones

El hilo y las huellas. Lo verdadero, lo falso, lo ficticio (Historia) (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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