The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries by Anne Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg
The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
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Anne Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries

Anne Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg with Carlo Ginzburg (Translator), John Tedeschi (Translator)

232 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought...

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