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The Night Battles
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Author : Carlo Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
The Night Battles written by Carlo Ginzburg and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
A remarkable tale of witchcraft, folk culture, and persuasion in early modern Europe. 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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Author : Etienne Stockland
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Night Battles written by Etienne Stockland and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches – the Benandanti, from the northern Italian province of Friulia. He also invents and deploys new and creative ways of tackling his source material that allow him to move beyond their limitations. Witchcraft documents are notoriously tricky sources – produced by elites with fixed views, they are products of questioning designed to prove or disprove guilt, rather than understand the subtleties of belief, and are very often the products of torture. Ginzburg placed great stress on variations in the evidence of the Benandanti over time to reveal changing patterns of belief, and also focused on the concept of ‘reading against the text’ – essentially looking as much at what is absent from the record as at what is present in it, and attempting to understand what the absences mean. His work not only pioneered the creation of a new school of historical study – ‘microhistory’ – it is also a great example of the creative thinking skills of connecting things together in an original way, producing novel explanations for existing evidence, and redefining an issue so as to see it in a new light.
Night Battles The Unabridged
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language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2015
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Author : Carlo Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Night Battles written by Carlo Ginzburg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Friuli (Italy : Province) categories.
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered 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. The author 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 immediacy, enabling the reader to identify a level of popular belief which constitutes a valuable witness for the reconstruction of the peasant way of thinking of this age.
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Author : Carlo Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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Author : Luke Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Macat Library
Release Date : 2017-07-15
The Night Battles written by Luke Freeman and has been published by Macat Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Occultism categories.
Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and 1800 in both Europe and Asia. Many thinkers previously believed that Europe's distinctive history--particularly the rise of capitalism--had created the revolutions that launched its path to global supremacy. Goldstone says that European and Asian states were, in fact, experiencing similar developments; it was how they reconstructed themselves in the aftermath that explained why Europe and Asia developed differently. Goldstone identifies four factors that led to the collapse of different authorities and develops a 'political stress indicator' to forecast the likelihood of present-day revolutions.
An Analysis Of Carlo Ginzburg S The Night Battles
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Author : Etienne Stockland
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
An Analysis Of Carlo Ginzburg S The Night Battles written by Etienne Stockland and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches – the Benandanti, from the northern Italian province of Friulia. He also invents and deploys new and creative ways of tackling his source material that allow him to move beyond their limitations. Witchcraft documents are notoriously tricky sources – produced by elites with fixed views, they are products of questioning designed to prove or disprove guilt, rather than understand the subtleties of belief, and are very often the products of torture. Ginzburg placed great stress on variations in the evidence of the Benandanti over time to reveal changing patterns of belief, and also focused on the concept of ‘reading against the text’ – essentially looking as much at what is absent from the record as at what is present in it, and attempting to understand what the absences mean. His work not only pioneered the creation of a new school of historical study – ‘microhistory’ – it is also a great example of the creative thinking skills of connecting things together in an original way, producing novel explanations for existing evidence, and redefining an issue so as to see it in a new light.
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Author : M. F. Bloxam
language : en
Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
Release Date : 2008
The Night Battles written by M. F. Bloxam and has been published by Permanent Press (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Psychological fiction categories.
Haunted by her recent and distant past, an American historian returns to the Sicily of her childhood to do research, but finds the small village haunted as well by invisible forces.
An Analysis Of Carlo Ginzburg S The Night Battles
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Author : Luke Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
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Zombie Fight Night
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Author : A. P. Fuchs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-04
Zombie Fight Night written by A. P. Fuchs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Fiction categories.
In 2027 A.D., the Zombie Apocalypse took the world by storm and no one was prepared. Countless lives were lost as humanity battled to regain control of their planet. Eventually, they did, and out of the ashes of fallen civilization rose a new world, one bent on revenge against the hordes of the undead that took everything from them. Enter Tony Sterpanko, entrepreneur extraordinaire who found a way to capitalize on humanity's thirst for vengeance against the zombie. He created Zombie Fight Night, a worldwide craze where the undead men and women who remained from the apocalypse faced off against people and beings that once existed on Earth or were existing for the first time. It is ten years later and at Blood Bay Arena, fortunes are won and lost. Men are made millionaires over night. Others are not so lucky and find themselves broken and destitute. Mick Chelsey is one such man: gambling addict, lousy husband and Zombie Fight Night fanatic. Except now, in order to still watch the fights and try to win back all he's lost, he needs to bet fast and big otherwise death will come for him. Let the battles begin. Zombies fight Bigfoot, werewolves, vampires, Axiom-man, Bruce Lee, samurai, kickboxers, robots and more in this ode to blood-and-guts action from Blood of the Dead author, A.P. Fuchs. You ready to get it on?