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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

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More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freuds wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential centerpiece of the volume Carlo Ginzburg places historical knowledge in a long tradition of cognitive practices and shows how a research strategy based on reading clues and traces embedded in the historical record reveals otherwise hidden information. Acknowledging his debt to art history, psychoanalysis, comparative religion, and anthropology, Ginzburg challenges us to retrieve these cultural and social dimensions. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on how we easily miss the context in which we read, write and live. Only hindsight allows some understanding. He examines his own path in research during the 1970s and its relationship to the times, especially the political scenes of Italy and Germany. Was he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the elusive and constantly evolving nature of history and historical research.

Preface to the 2013 Edition
Preface to the Italian Edition
Translators' Note
Bibliographical Note
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
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Index of Names

""Ginzburg is known internationally for his studies of what might be called the interface between learned and popular culture. This collection of eight essays explores the methodological foundations of his historical analysis.""

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