Ecstasies

Name: Ecstasies
Author: Carlo Ginzburg

by Carlo Ginzburg

History of ecstatic religious experiences, shamanism, and witchcraft across cultures

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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.

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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