Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by
Etienne Stockland, Luke Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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....