Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Born 1939 in Italy, received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. Occupied teaching positions at the University of Bologna and since 1988 at the University of California, Los Angeles. Field of interests range from the Italian Renaissance to Early Modern European History, a leader in microhistory methodologies.

Related Topics:
1939 - University of Pisa - University of Bologna - University of California, Los Angeles - Italian Renaissance

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

He is most famous for his ground-breaking book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller which looked at the life of a peasant in Montereale Valcellina, Italy in the 14th century. In The Night Battles and Ecstasies he traced a complex path from certain European witch persecutions to what he describes as a substrate of shamanic cults in Europe. His 1999 work The Judge and the Historian sought to expose injustice in the trial of Adriano Sofri, though it failed to win a new trial.

Related Topics:
Montereale Valcellina - Italy - 14th century - Shamanic - Adriano Sofri

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~