{"product_id":"2940169254044","title":"A Macat Analysis of Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles: Witchcraft \u0026 Agrarian Cults in the 16th \u0026 17th Centuries","description":"In his 1966 book \u003ci\u003eThe Night Battles\u003c\/i\u003e, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg detailed the lives of peasant people who were marginalized in their own society and have been all but forgotten in ours. He created a new school of study, \"microhistory,\" which has influenced thinkers from a range of different disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eThe Night Battles\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the witch trials of a small group of peasants in sixteenth-century Italy who believed they turned into animals at night to ward off evil spirits and safeguard their crops. Ginzburg¿s analysis of available primary sources creates a remarkably detailed picture of this shamanism, which he claims could be traced back as far as 1500 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Ginzburg issued a challenge to late-twentieth-century academic norms¿and pioneered new historical research techniques in doing so. Today, readers turn to \u003ci\u003eThe Night Battles\u003c\/i\u003e not only for its account of a series of witch trials, but for Ginzburg¿s ground-breaking analysis of the ways prevailing ideologies re-interpret, create, and impose new meanings on popular practices.","brand":"Ella Blasen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100415967472,"sku":"2940169254044","price":13.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169254044_p0.jpg?v=1763676942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169254044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}