Description
Book SynopsisWas 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 ReviewGinzburg 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 ContentsPreface 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
