Threads and traces

Threads and traces: true, false, fictive

by Ginzburg, Carlo

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This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburg's latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians."

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  • Full title :Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi

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This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburg's latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians."

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  • Publication Date:©2012

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Originaltitel: Filo e le tracce

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vii, 328 p.) : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780520259614, 0520259610, 9780520949843, 0520949846
  • oclc:ocn897098178
  • LC Classification:D16.8
  • Dewey Decimal:907.2

Subjects

Collective memory Histoire -- Erreurs, inventions, etc Historiography -- Philosophy History -- Errors, inventions, etc Literature and history Littérature et histoire Mémoire collective Truth Vérité

Writers

Ginzburg, Carlo

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