Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method (Paperback)

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, Freud's 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 easily we 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.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Carlo Ginzburg (Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies)
Translators:	John Tedeschi • Anne C. Tedeschi
Preface by:	Carlo Ginzburg (Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies)
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	213
ISBN-13:	978-1-4214-0990-0
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Italian
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	1-4214-0990-9
Barcode:	9781421409900

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