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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method Paperback - 2013

by Ginzburg, Carlo

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  • Title Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
  • Author Ginzburg, Carlo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date 2013-09-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 48558024-6
  • ISBN 9781421409900 / 1421409909
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.55 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.40 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Historiography, History - Methodology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012953214
  • Dewey Decimal Code 907.2

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From the publisher

More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud's wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential centerpiece of the volume Carlo Ginzburg places historical knowledge in a long tradition of cognitive practices and shows how a research strategy based on reading clues and traces embedded in the historical record reveals otherwise hidden information. Acknowledging his debt to art history, psychoanalysis, comparative religion, and anthropology, Ginzburg challenges us to retrieve these cultural and social dimensions. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on how easily we miss the context in which we read, write, and live. Only hindsight allows some understanding. He examines his own path in research during the 1970s and its relationship to the times, especially the political scenes of Italy and Germany. 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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About the author

Carlo Ginzburg has taught at the University of Bologna, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The recipent of the 2010 International Balzan Prize, he is author of The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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