Clues, myths, and the historical method / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi.

  • Ginzburg, Carlo.
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[1989], ©1989
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989], ©1989.

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xvii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Notes

Translation of: Miti, emblemi, spie.
Inludes index.

Bibliographic information

Bibliography: p. 165-221.

Contents

Witchcraft and popular piety -- From Aby Warburg to E.H. Gombrich -- The high and the low -- Titian, Ovid, and sixteenth-century codes for erotic illustration -- Clues -- Germanic mythology and Nazism -- Freud, the wolf-man, and the werewolves -- The inquisitor as anthropologist.

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  • 0801834589