Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg
"In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method offers a fresh perspective on this Italian historian who has become such an essential point of reference in many domains of cultural study today." -- Dana Polan, Camera Obscura.
Ginzburg is known internationally for his studies of what might be called the interface between learned and popular cultureThis collection of eight essays explores the methodological foundations of his historical analysis. Journal of Interdisciplinary History In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method offers a fresh perspective on this Italian historian who has become such an essential point of reference in many domains of cultural study today. -- Dana Polan Camera Obscura
Carlo Ginzburg's work has been published in eighteen languages. He teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is the Franklin D. Murphy Chair of Italian Renaissance Studies. His books in English include The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, and Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches'Sabbath.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801843884 |
| ISBN 10 | 080184388X |
| Title | Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method |
| Author | Carlo Ginzburg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1992-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 252 |
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