The Night Battles : Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg - 1992

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The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-03-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

209 pages, index. Trade soft cover; very good condition.

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Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into their enemies the witches. Carlo Ginzburg shows clearly how this transformation of the popular notion of witchcraft was manipulated by the Inquisitors, and disseminated all over Europe and even to the New World. The peasants fragmented and confused testimony reaches us with great immediacy, enabling us to identify a level of popular belief which constitutes a valuable witness for the reconstruction of… Read More

Johns Hopkins University Press, March 1992. Trade Paperback. VG-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Baltimore.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 5th or later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover 1992 edition. Text and covers in very good condition. Binding firm. A few sentences underlined with, a small number of brackets to margins.(209 pages).

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-03-01. 5th or later Edition. paperback. Fair. 6x0x9. Indentation of fore edge. Previous owner's inscription on fly leaf blacked out with black marker. No other marks of highlighting of pages noted inside of book.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good-. 1992. Paperback. 0801843863 . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 232 pages; 1992 Johns Hopkins University Press Trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Snugly bound and clean; no marks. Light shelf/handling evidence to cover edges and a thin area of sunning to the rear cover adjacent to the spine. VG- to VG .