Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath

by Carlo Ginzburg (Author), Ginzburg (Author), SusanEd.Rosenthal (Translator)

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2004
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 14 Jun 2004
ISBN 10: 0226296938
ISBN 13: 9780226296937

Media Reviews

Ginzburg''s learning is prodigious and his journey through two thousand years of Eurasian folkore a tour de force. --;i>The Observer

--Keith Thomas The Observer
Ecstasies manages, with extraordinary candor, clarity, grace, and erudition, to steer between lurid sensationalism and dry-as-dust academic drivel, and between purely localized historiography and universalism. This is a big, bold, brilliant book. --Wendy Doniger New York Times Book Review
At times, Ecstacies can be demanding. . . . But persist, and you will be rewarded with truly haunting stories and speculations. --Michael Dirda Barnesandnoblereview.com

Author Bio

Carlo Ginzburg is the Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms, The Night Battles, and Myths, Emblems, and Clues. Raymond Rosenthal (1922-2002) received the Present Tense Award for his translation of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table and was twice nominated for the National Book Award for his translations.