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	Carlo Ginzburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory.
		Ginzburg was born in 1939 in Italy, where he received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961.
		He has subsequently held teaching positions at the University of Bologna and (since 1988) at the University of California, Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlo_Ginzburg (355 words)

	Eurozine - Articles
		Ginzburg's account of these happenings gives us some idea of what has made him one of today's foremost historians: his talents as a storyteller, his interest in popular beliefs and their relationship to power and authority, and his gift for winkling out the small details capable of challenging our established views of history.
		Carlo Ginzburg: What we witness in the spring of 1321 is the idea of the great conspiracy, the notion that external enemies can ally themselves with persons in our midst in order to undermine the entire social structure.
		Ginzburg's exploration of narrative and his criticism of traditional historical writing have often led him to be associated with the postmodern wing in the history debate, something against which he has strongly protested.
	www.eurozine.com /article/2003-07-11-ginzburg-en.html (6253 words)

	The flight of the witch
		Luckily for us, Carlo Ginzburg has studied the records of inquisitors in Friulia in northern Italy, which detail the beliefs of people known as the benandanti who lived among them who appear to have "flown" on a regular basis.
		Ginzburg's concern is that scholars seem to have neglected the many incidences of flight that occur in folklore and shamanic culture throughout the world, in preference for the idea that it was an elaboration by elite mentalities during the witch trials of the early modern period.
		It is this type of flight that Carlo Ginzburg is particularly interested in, not the physical forms of flight which are clearly implausible to the modern reader.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/flight.htm (1457 words)

	Natalia Ginzburg
		Ginzburg's novels are a mixture of reminiscence, observation, and invention.
		Ginzburg was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1983 as an independent left-wing deputy.
		Ginzburg has published memoirs, several dramas, essays, translations from such authors as Marcel Proust and Flaubert, and a biography of the poet and essayist Alessandro Manzoni, which reveals the failure of the great author as a father.
	kirjasto.sci.fi /nataliag.htm (1078 words)

	Ginzburg Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ginzburg brings up the point from time to time, and it is a crucial one.
		Ginzburg also writes about the case of a 17th century Livonian man condemned for believing that he became a wolf, at least in spirit, in order to combat crop-ruining witches at night.
		Ginzburg tells one story of a local priest who begged for someone to investigate what he called "bellandanti" in 1668, but nobody cared enough to pursue the case.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/witch/wrevginzburg.html (1246 words)

	Amazon.ca: Judge And The Historian: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Carlo Ginzburg, a noted and respected historian, draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the state's case in this late-20th-century show trial.
		The case Ginzburg exposes here is that of three Italian leftists accused of having commissioned (and committed) the murder of a notorious right-wing police investigator in 1972.
		Again, as Ginzburg ably shows, the testimony of the would-be driver is full of contradictions, inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and the court that convicted the three went to extreme lengths to discard reliable eyewitness accounts of the murder to accept the self-styled driver's version(s) of events.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859848699 (897 words)

	Matti Peltonen: On Microhistory (English summary)
		Carlo Ginzburg has described how they encountered the expression micro history and how it was first used as a collective label for a series of historical studies, the first of which was his own The Enigma of Piero.
		Ginzburg’s version of microhistory was first advocated in his splendid article "Clues", an early version of which already captured the attention of Lawrence Stone.
		Ginzburg draw a very dramatic picture, which was also noticeable in the preface of his Cheese and the Worms, between history and social sciences.
	www.valt.helsinki.fi /staff/mpeltone/microsum.htm (2752 words)

	Wooden Eyes; Nine Reflections on Distance; Carlo Ginzburg
		Ginzburg's work represents the finest in philosophical musings, as he coaxes the reader into new perceptions of the seemingly simple concept of distance, which he renders startlingly fresh.
		Arising from the theme of proximity is the recurring issue of the opposition between Jews and Christians—a topic Ginzburg explores with an impressive array of examples, from Latin translations of Greek and Hebrew scriptures to Pope John Paul II's recent apology to the Jews for antisemitism.
		Carlo Ginzburg teaches at UCLA, where he is the Franklin D. Murphy Chair of Italian Renaissance Studies.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023111/0231119607.HTM (446 words)

	PHF BELIEF \| Dipesh Chakrabarty
		However, Chakrabarty pointedly notes Ginzburg's insistence on maintaining a critical distance from his object of study, which Ginzburg himself defends on the grounds that such non-participation and dis-identification are essential to the historiographical enterprise and its scholarly legitimacy.
		Ginzburg posits a relationship of identity between peasants and their beliefs and a disidentification of the historiographical subject with respect to this peasant-belief object of study.
		The second difference between Sen and Ginzburg is a continuation of the first: Chakrabarty argues that this putatively "rational" transition from oral to written culture could not happen in India because the Western notion of a disciplinary authority is itself incompatible with the Indian conception of power.
	humanities.sas.upenn.edu /03-04/chakrabartysum.html (1389 words)

	Salon Reviews \| "The Judge and the Historian"
		Ginzburg, himself a historian who has specialized in the Inquisition and who teaches at UCLA, wrote "The Judge and the Historian" to call the world's attention to what he sees as precisely such a gross miscarriage of justice in his native Italy.
		Ginzburg regards the convictions in the Calabresi case as the 20th century equivalent of the witchcraft and heresy convictions under the Inquisition.
		The contemporary Italian courts, he says, cared just as little for the evidence as the 16th and 17th century Catholic ones: Suspects could affirm their crimes, deny all or remain silent, and all these possible responses were regarded as evidence of their guilt.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/08/13/ginzburg/print.html (529 words)

	The Judge and the Historian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In The Judge and the Historian, the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in this late-twentieth-century political show-trial.
		Carefully exposing the twists and turns of the various trials, Ginzburg also takes the opportunity to reflect more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge.
		Carlo Ginzburg was born in Turin and now teaches history at UCLA.
	www.versobooks.com /books/ghij/g-titles/ginzburg_accident.shtml (502 words)

	Wooden Eyes
		Carlo Ginzburg’s new book is an illuminating and thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance.
		Finally Ginzburg considers the moral implications of distance in a discussion of the question posed by Balzac’s Rastignac: if you were offered the chance of acquiring a fortune by willing the death of an unknown person in a distant country—say, a Chinese mandarin—would you be able to resist?
		Carlo Ginzburg was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA.
	www.versobooks.com /books/ghij/g-titles/ginzburg_c_wooden_eyes.shtml (295 words)

	Visiting professor Ginzburg teaches five-week course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Renowned European history professor Carlo Ginzburg recently taught a five-week course entitled “Reading Machiavelli” as a guest of Critical Inquiry, the University of Chicago Press’s quarterly humanities journal, supported by a grant from the office of the president of the University.
		Speaking to the shortened format of the course, Ginzburg said it was difficult to fit all of the material into the condensed seminar, but overall he thought the format added to the positive intensity of the class.
		Ginzburg is the second Critical Inquiry professor to teach at the University.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /news/articles/2003/02/28/visiting_professor_g.php?x=email (618 words)

	Part Four: Murray and the Witch Trials Pt 3
		Carlo Ginzburg cited the confession of Arnaud Gelis, sacristan of a village in the Pyrennees:
		Carlo Ginzburg argued that ecstatic shamanism had influenced the stereotype of the Witches’ Sabbath.
		Carlo Ginzburg related that a man sentenced in the early sixteenth century explained how he became a witch.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/angelic/361/9.html (4308 words)

	UPNE \| History, Rhetoric, and Proof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Historian Carlo Ginzburg uses the occasion of his Menachem Stern Lectureship to present a provocative and characteristically brilliant examination of the relation between rhetoric and historiography.
		Ginzburg discovers a middle ground between the empiricist or positivist view of history, and the current postmodern tendency to regard any historical account as just one among an infinity of possible narratives, distinguished or measured not by the standard of truth, but by rhetorical skill.
		CARLO GINZBURG's many books include Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath (1991), Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method (1989), The Night Battles (1983), and The Cheese and the Worms (1980).
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-87451-932-2.html (179 words)

	UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures
		Ginzburg has published numerous book and articles which have been translated into over twenty languages - reaching a wide audience in academia and beyond.
		Ginzburg is Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at UCLA where he has taught since 1988.
		Ginzburg has received many honors and awards and has been elected a fellow of several prestigious societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, Italy.
	www.grad.berkeley.edu /grad/lectures/foerster/ginzburg.shtml (229 words)

	Alibris: Carlo Ginzburg
		Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as Menocchio, to show how one person responded to the confusing political and religious...
		Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand.
		Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his paintings.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ginzburg,Carlo (627 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller
		Ginzburg never abandons his miller completely, and you will be touched by his humanity as well as surprised by his views.
		Carlo Ginzburg was one of the first historians to put into practice anthropological ideas about culture as a historically transmitted system of meaning.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0801843871 (646 words)

	Timothy Mason ; Reading the Riots - New Age Travellers and the Arlies of the Night
		These are drawn from three domains : first, from the writings of the historians Carlo Ginzburg and Robert Muchembled and the ethnologist Bertrand Hell, I have taken the idea of a supernatural battle between the forces of good and evil.
		The nocturnal excursions of the benandanti were preceded by a kind of trance which left the body as if dead, after which the spirit left it in the form of an animal (a mouse or butterfly) or riding on an animal (a hare, dog, pig, or the like).
		Ginzburg links these beliefs to those of Siberian shamanism ; the night battles of these Italian peasants are thus attached to an exceedingly ancient construct of the human imagination - a schema which is one of the very oldest properties of human culture.
	www.timothyjpmason.com /WebPages/Publications/riots.htm (5026 words)

	Hyperstition: Surfascism
		The subject of Ginzburg’s lecture on Tuesday, held in the vaguely sinister atmosphere of the Leo Baeck Institute near Regents Park on, was the College de Sociologie, founded by Bataille, Roger Caillois and Michel Leiris in Paris in 1937.
		In Ginzburg’s narrative, Voltaire emerged as the pitvotal counter-enlightenment figure: a disappointed rationalist whose inability to square his knowledge of the natural world with rational ethical principles made him cry out in moral disgust for a theodicy.
		Ginzburg lingered with an obvious relish over Maistre’s astonishing, appalled-fascinated evocation of the hangman, the anti-social but socially-necessary psychopath and for Ginzburg, it is the combination of Sade and Maistre that makes possible, not only the flaneur-decadence and debauched tristesse of Baudelaire, but also Foucault’s studies of discipline and the carceral.
	hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org /archives/004528.html (3320 words)

	Carlo Ginzburg \| MetaFilter
		October 12, 2004 1:16 AM On The Dark Side of History - The historian Carlo Ginzburg talks about his publications and his historical method of microhistory which he pioneered.
		Ginzburg's most famous work is The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller--here's a review from the Journal of Peasant Studies in pdf form.
		Domenico Scandella known as Menocchio is now a hero in his ancestral village and the subject of Menocchio, a play by Elizabeth Groag.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/36203 (353 words)

	Ginzburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian, the son of Natalia Ginzburg-Levi and Leone Ginzburg
		Natalia Ginzburg(Levi), Italian writer (Jewish father), the wife of Leone Ginzburg, and the mother of Carlo Ginzburg
		Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginzburg (Russian Jewish father)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ginzburg (128 words)

	What Is Microhistory?
		Perhaps foremost of the contributors to the debate was the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, who delivered incisive criticisms of the prevailing methods in numerous articles in the Italian journal, Quaderni Storici, the German journal, Historische Anthropologie, in English in Critical Inquiry, and elsewhere.
		Ginzburg and many of his colleagues attacked large-scale quantitative studies on the grounds that they distorted reality on the individual level.
		2 Ginzburg’s ideas are put forward in a large number of books and articles, notably “Just One Witness,” Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution” (Cambridge, Mass., 1992); The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, trans.
	hnn.us /articles/23720.html (804 words)

	Ginzburg to speak at LACMA - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In reaction to the looming possibility of cloning, Ginzburg, who specializes in early modern European history and the Italian Renaissance, steps away from the present in order to compare today's conceptions of replication to those of yesteryear.
		The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Ginzburg's lecture, "Aping Nature: Reflections on a Medieval Metaphor," at the Leo S. Bing Theater at 7:30 p.m.
		Some of the groundwork for Ginzburg's lecture was laid in his famous essay, "Clues." The essay portrays Ginzburg's interest in connoisseurship (the expertise of identifying original paintings as opposed to copies), a topic that led to his recent research on replication.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=25733 (537 words)

	The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller - zonExplorer
		The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
		As Ginzburg says, though, we must look to the Protestant Reformation and the invention of the printing press as being major catalysts for such learning and religious evolution.
		Forced to explain his nonAristotelian views (and, if Ginzburg is telling the truth, he responded extremely well to the inquisitors' questions!), the miller outwits his arrogant, narrow-minded judges and so wins the reward of torture and imprisonment, losing his wife, family, everything in the end.
	www.celtic-one-design.com /php/0801843871.htm (408 words)

	Ginzburg, Natalia Levi on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		GINZBURG, NATALIA LEVI [Ginzburg, Natalia Levi], 1916-91, Italian novelist.
		Because she and her husband Leone Ginzburg were Jewish, they were confined to a small village from 1940 to 1943; her husband later died in prison.
		Una entrevista especial a Carlo Ginzburg (Carlo Ginzburg conversa con Adriano Sofri en febrero de 1982) *.(Dossier: la microhistoria en la encrucijada)(Entrevista)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/ginzburgn1.asp (239 words)

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		Carlo Ginzburg is Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.
		Ginzburg, “Küresellesmeye Yerel Bir Yaklasim: Cografya, Köleler ve Incil,” Tarih Yaziminda Yeni Yaklasimlar.
		See C. Ginzburg — A. Prosperi, Giochi di pazienza, (Turin, 1975), 178—83, even though, today—in part as a reaction against a simplistic reading of Foucault, I would tend to give more weight to the likely consequences of the friction between hypotheses and empirical data.
	www.history.umd.edu /Faculty/BCooperman/CriticalTheory/cginzburgfinal.doc (1923 words)

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