The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice - Couverture souple

Ginzburg, Carlo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1859843719 ISBN 13 : 9781859843710

Editeur : Verso Books, 2002

Synopsis

A bomb, an anarchist’s ‘accidental death’, the murder of a police commissar, and the confession of a former member of Lotta Continua led to seven dubious court cases and a tale of political opportunism and dishonesty. Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola’s famous J’accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the nineteenth-century, 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 and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Carlo Ginzburg was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859843719
• ISBN 13: 9781859843710
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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