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Ginzburg, Carlo.

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The Night battles : = witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Night battles :/ Carlo GInzburg ; with a new preface ; translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi.
Reminder of title:	witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /
Author:	Ginzburg, Carlo.
Published:	Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press, : 2013.,
Description:	xxv, 208 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	The night battles -- The processions of the dead -- The benandanti between inquisitors and witches -- The benandanti at the sabbat.
Subject:	Witchcraft - Italy -
Subject:	Friuli (Italy) - Religious life and customs. -
ISBN:	9781421409924

The Night battles : = witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /
Ginzburg, Carlo.

The Night battles :witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /Carlo GInzburg ; with a new preface ; translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi. - Johns Hopkins paperback edition. - Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press,2013. - xxv, 208 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The night battles -- The processions of the dead -- The benandanti between inquisitors and witches -- The benandanti at the sabbat.

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 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 of the witches' sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into their enemies - the witches. The author shows clearly how this transformation of the popular notion of witchcraft was manipulated by the Inquisitors, and disseminated all over Europe and even to the New World. The peasants' fragmented and confused testimony reaches us with immediacy, enabling the reader to identify a level of popular belief which constitutes a valuable witness for the reconstruction of the peasant way of thinking of this age.

ISBN: 9781421409924US25.95

LCCN: 2012953213Subjects--Topical Terms:

3260173
Witchcraft
--ItalySubjects--Geographical Terms:

3260172
Friuli (Italy)
--Religious life and customs.

LC Class. No.: BL980.I8 / G5613 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 398.4

The Night battles : = witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /
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