[PDF.37ze] The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries

The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries

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 | #594582 in Books |  1992-03-01 | Original language:Italian | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.56 x6.00l,.72 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| *Insert creative adjectives to describe amazing book*|By Gl|I had to read this book for my Italian Renaissance class in University. It was AMAZING. Do you hear me ladies and gents? VERY good. I loved this book. It is translated and written quite well and can be understood easily, despite the constant re-telling of the same content. It can be verbose in this aspect. Many things| ||A tour-de-force of reconstruction, building out of scattered and fragmentary sources a whole world for the reader to inhabit. (Anthony Pagden London of Books)

|A work of genuine intellectual distinction. It is an unusually original

Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred 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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries   |  Carlo Ginzburg. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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