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Was he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the elusive and constantly evolving nature of history and historical research.

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Ginzburg is known internationally for his studies of what might be called the interface between learned and popular culture. This collection of eight essays explores the methodological foundations of his historical analysis. -- David Herlihy Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2013 Edition
Preface to the Italian Edition
Translators' Note
Bibliographical Note
Witchcraft and Popular Piety: Notes on a Modenese Trial of 1519
From Aby Warburg to E. H. Gombrich: A Problem of Method
The High and the Low: The Theme of Forbidden Knowledge in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Titian, Ovid, and Sixteenth-Century Codes for Erotic Illustration
Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm
Germanic Mythology and Nazism: Thoughts on an Old Book by Georges Dumézil
Freud, the Wolf-Man, and the Werewolves
The Inquisitor as Anthropologist
Notes
Index of Names

Clues Myths and the Historical Method

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 10 December 2013
      ISBN-13 9781421409900
      978-1421409900
      ISBN-10 1421409909
      Also in:
      History Historiography

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Was he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the elusive and constantly evolving nature of history and historical research.

      Trade Review
      Ginzburg is known internationally for his studies of what might be called the interface between learned and popular culture. This collection of eight essays explores the methodological foundations of his historical analysis. -- David Herlihy Journal of Interdisciplinary History

      Table of Contents

      Preface to the 2013 Edition
      Preface to the Italian Edition
      Translators' Note
      Bibliographical Note
      Witchcraft and Popular Piety: Notes on a Modenese Trial of 1519
      From Aby Warburg to E. H. Gombrich: A Problem of Method
      The High and the Low: The Theme of Forbidden Knowledge in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
      Titian, Ovid, and Sixteenth-Century Codes for Erotic Illustration
      Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm
      Germanic Mythology and Nazism: Thoughts on an Old Book by Georges Dumézil
      Freud, the Wolf-Man, and the Werewolves
      The Inquisitor as Anthropologist
      Notes
      Index of Names

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