The Night Battles
The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries is a historical study of the benandanti folk custom of 16th and 17th century Friuli, Northeastern Italy. It was written by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, then of the University of Bologna, and first published by the company Giulio Einaudi in 1966 under the Italian title of I Benandanti: Stregoneria e culti agrari tra Cinquecento e Seicento. It was later translated into English by John and Anne Tedeschi and published by Routledge and Kegan Paul in 1983 with a new foreword written by the historian Eric Hobsbawm.
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The Night Battles
The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries is a historical study of the benandanti folk custom of 16th and 17th century Friuli, Northeastern Italy. It was written by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, then of the University of Bologna, and first published by the company Giulio Einaudi in 1966 under the Italian title of I Benandanti: Stregoneria e culti agrari tra Cinquecento e Seicento. It was later translated into English by John and Anne Tedeschi and published by Routledge and Kegan Paul in 1983 with a new foreword written by the historian Eric Hobsbawm.
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft ...... aude Lecouteux and Emma Wilby.
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The first English-language edition of the book.
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"I am a benandante because I g ...... and they with sorghum stalks."
"[D]espite [its] serious defec ...... of an ancient fertility rite."
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Carlo Ginzburg, 1983 [1966].
Ginzburg, 1966.
Montefalco's record of what Moduco informed him, 1580. Quoted by Ginzburg, 1983.
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Giulio Einaudi,Routledge and Kegan Paul
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft ...... y the historian Eric Hobsbawm.
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft ...... enth and Seventeenth Centuries
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