The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi
The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries

Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi

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

Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi with John Tedeschi (Translator), Carlo Ginzburg (Translator)

232 pages hardcover 1966

15 editions

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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