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Ecstasies is the culmination of Ginzburg's longstanding fascination with popular myths that are shared across different cultures and eras. Here he follows the accounts given by those accused of witchcraft centuries ago, gradually weaving them together into a startling pattern, revealing evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe for millenia. Photographs and maps.
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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:
--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 "
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.
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0517088525
- ISBN 13 9780517088524
- BindingHardcover
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