Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' SabbathWeaving 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. |
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... conspiracy . In the long run , it set in motion unforeseeable mechanisms . The plot which , in the course of half a century , led to the persecution of lepers and Jews and to the first trials hinging on the diabolical Sabbath , is in ...
... conspiracy . In the long run , it set in motion unforeseeable mechanisms . The plot which , in the course of half a century , led to the persecution of lepers and Jews and to the first trials hinging on the diabolical Sabbath , is in ...
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... Conspiracy , New York 1987 . 50. From a substantially similar point of view Jacques Le Goff considers Bloch's Royal Touch the model for a renovated historical and political anthropology ( introduction cit . , p . XXXVIIII ) . See also ...
... Conspiracy , New York 1987 . 50. From a substantially similar point of view Jacques Le Goff considers Bloch's Royal Touch the model for a renovated historical and political anthropology ( introduction cit . , p . XXXVIIII ) . See also ...
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