Clues, Myths And The Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg
A collection of essays that advances an “evidential” approach to history, showing how minute traces—gestures, slips, and marginal details—can reveal larger structures of belief, culture, and power. Drawing analogies with practices like connoisseurship, clinical diagnosis, and detective work, it argues that historians reconstruct the past through interpretive reasoning from fragmentary clues rather than through purely positivist proof. Ranging across topics such as myth, witchcraft, and visual culture, it models a microhistorical method that reads signs to illuminate broader historical realities and the limits of interpretation.
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- 1986
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- Miti, emblemi, spie
- Mitos, emblemas, indicios
- Mitos, emblemas, sinais
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