Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath - Softcover

Ginzburg, Carlo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226296938 ISBN 13: 9780226296937

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

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Review:

"Ginzburg''s learning is prodigious and his journey through two thousand years of Eurasian folkore a tour de force."--;i>The Observer"

--Keith Thomas "The Observer "

"At times, "Ecstacies" can be demanding. . . . But persist, and you will be rewarded with truly haunting stories and speculations."--Michael Dirda "Barnesandnoblereview.com "

"Ginzburg's learning is prodigious and his journey through two thousand years of Eurasian folkore a tour de force."--Keith Thomas "The Observer "

""Ecstasies" manages, with extraordinary candor, clarity, grace, and erudition, to steer between lurid sensationalism and dry-as-dust academic drivel, and between purely localized historiography and universalism. This is a big, bold, brilliant book."--Wendy Doniger "New York Times Book Review "

"Ecstasies manages, with extraordinary candor, clarity, grace, and erudition, to steer between lurid sensationalism and dry-as-dust academic drivel, and between purely localized historiography and universalism. This is a big, bold, brilliant book."--Wendy Doniger "New York Times Book Review "

"At times, Ecstacies can be demanding. . . . But persist, and you will be rewarded with truly haunting stories and speculations."--Michael Dirda "Barnesandnoblereview.com "

About the Author:

Carlo Ginzburg is the Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms, The Night Battles, and Myths, Emblems, and Clues. Raymond Rosenthal (1922-2002) received the Present Tense Award for his translation of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table and was twice nominated for the National Book Award for his translations.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226296938
• ISBN 13: 9780226296937
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 366