Threads and traces [electronic resource] : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
By: Ginzburg, Carlo.
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BookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012Description: vii, 328 p. : ill.Uniform titles: Filo e le tracce. English Subject(s): Historiography -- Philosophy | Literature and history | History -- Errors, inventions, etc | Truth | Collective memoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 907.2 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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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."-- Provided by publisher.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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