Carlo Ginzburg
Ginzburg's microhistory — exemplified in The Cheese and the Worms — recovers the worldview of a 16th-century miller through Inquisition records to illuminate a cosmos of popular culture invisible to traditional history. He is the most influential practitioner of microhistory.
Works
- The Cheese and the WormsMicrohistory of a sixteenth-century miller accused of heresy by Inquisition
- Night BattlesStudy of witchcraft and nocturnal rituals in sixteenth-century Italian villages
- The Enigma of PieroArt historical analysis of Piero della Francesca's paintings and their meanings
- Clues, Myths, and the Historical MethodEssays on evidence, interpretation, and method in historical research
- EcstasiesHistory of ecstatic religious experiences, shamanism, and witchcraft across cultures