عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0203819004
(Number (ISBN
1280684941
(Number (ISBN
9780203819005
(Number (ISBN
9781280684944
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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b537328
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft) :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
First Statement of Responsibility
Carlo Ginzburg
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Hoboken
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Taylor & Francis
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(241 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Cover; The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Eric Hobsbawm; Translators' note; Preface to the English edition; Preface to the Italian edition; I. The night battles; II. The processions of the dead; III. The benandanti between inquisitors and witches; IV. The benandanti at the sabbat; Appendix; Notes; Index of names.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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 of the witches' sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the ben.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Friuli (Italy) -- Religious life and customs.
Witchcraft -- Italy -- Friuli.
Witchcraft.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Carlo Ginzburg
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Carlo Ginzburg
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