Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226296937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.