The Night Battles – Witchcraft and Agraria...

Cover: 9781421409924 | Night Battles | Carlo Ginzburg | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2013

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Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were able to fly into the night sky to engage in epic spiritual combat for the good of the village. Carlo Ginzburg looks at how the Inquisition's officers interpreted these tales to support their world view that the peasants were in fact practicing sorcery. The result of this cultural clash, which lasted for more than a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into the Inquisition's mortal enemies--witches.
Relying upon this exceptionally well-documented case study, Ginzburg argues that a similar transformation of attitudes--perceiving folk beliefs as diabolical witchcraft--took place all over Europe and spread to the New World. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between anomalous cases and historical generalizations.

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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781421409924
ISBN-10:	1421409925
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Carlo Ginzburg John Tedeschi Anne C. Tedeschi
Übersetzung:	Tedeschi, John Tedeschi, Anne C.
Zusammengestellt:	Ginzburg, Carlo
Hersteller:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen:	4 Illustrations, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
Maße:	239 x 188 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Carlo Ginzburg (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.10.2013
Gewicht:	0,386 kg