Threads and traces
Ginzburg, Carlo.
Threads and traces true, false, fictive / [electronic resource] : Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. - vii, 328 p. : ill.
"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."--
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Historiography--Philosophy.
Literature and history.
History--Errors, inventions, etc.
Truth.
Collective memory.
Electronic books.
D16.8 / .G536513 2012eb
907.2
Threads and traces true, false, fictive / [electronic resource] : Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. - vii, 328 p. : ill.
"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."--
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Historiography--Philosophy.
Literature and history.
History--Errors, inventions, etc.
Truth.
Collective memory.
Electronic books.
D16.8 / .G536513 2012eb
907.2