Description
Book SynopsisIn his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between anomalous cases and historical generalizations.
Trade ReviewA work of genuine intellectual distinction. It is an unusually original contribution to the study of witchcraft in early modern Europe, but its importance is far from being exhausted by that description. -- Peter Burke New York Review of Books A tour-de-force of reconstruction, building out of scattered and fragmentary sources a whole world for the reader to inhabit. -- Anthony Pagden London Review of Books
Table of ContentsPreface to the 2013 Edition
Foreword by Eric J. Hobsbawm
Translators' Note
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the Italian Edition
I. The Night Battles
II. The Processions of the Dead
III. The Benandanti between Inquisitors and Witches
IV. The Benandanti at the Sabbat
Appendix
Notes
Index of Names
