Clues, myths, and the historical method

General Information

Uniform Title
Miti, emblemi, spie.
Author/Creator
Ginzburg, Carlo, 1939-
Language
English.
Published
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1989.
Physical Description
xvii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject
History > Methodology.
Historiography.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility
Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi.
Note
Translation of: Miti, emblemi, spie.
Includes index.
Content
Witchcraft and popular piety: notes on a Modenese trial of 1519 -- From Aby Warburg to E. H. Gombrich: a problem of method -- The high and the low: the theme of forbidden knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Titian, Ovid, and sixteenth-century codes for erotic illustration -- Clues: roots of an evidential paradigm -- Germanic mythology and Nazism: thoughts on an old book by Georges Dumézil -- Freud, the wolf-man, and the werewolves -- The inquisitor as anthropologist.
ISBN
0801834589

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Collection Call Number Volume Info Shelving Location Public Note
BookOSA Archivum LibraryReference collection907/.2 GINReferenceDonation of Márk László-Herbert.

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