Early Modern Italian World

Interdisciplinary studies on Italian history and culture in Italy and beyond, c. 1400-1800

Session One: Microhistory

Name: Carlo Ginzburg Reading Group Session One: Microhistory
Start: 2026-10-28T12:30:00+0000
End: 2026-10-28T14:30:00+0000

Readings:

The night battles: witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Baltimore, 1992), preface to the first edition, chapters 1 and 4 (first published 1966).
The cheese and the worms: the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller (London, 1980) (first published 1976).
‘Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm’, in Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method (Baltimore, 1986), 96-125 (first published 1979).