Carlo Ginzburg

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1. Carlo Ginzburg

   Author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath

2. Natalie Zemon Davis

   Author of The Return of Martin Guerre, Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds, Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis

3. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2, On History

4. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

   Author of Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324, Carnival in Romans

5. Frances Yates

   Author of The Art of Memory, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

6. Marc Bloch

   Author of The Historian's Craft, Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence, Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization

7. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Captain Swing

8. Michel Foucault

   Author of The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century

9. Robert Darnton

   Author of The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History, The Business of Enlightenment

10. Norman Cohn

    Author of The Pursuit of the Millennium, Europe's Inner Demons

11. Ronald Hutton

    Author of The Triumph of the Moon, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy, Witches, Druids and King Arthur

12. Johan Huizinga

    Author of The Autumn of the Middle Ages

13. Richard Kieckhefer

    Author of Magic in the Middle Ages (Canto), Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century

14. Giorgio Agamben

    Author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience, Idea of Prose (Suny Series, Intersections)

15. Benedict Anderson

    Author of Imagined Communities, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

16. Jacques Le Goff

    Author of Intellectuals in the Middle Ages, Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages, Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages

17. Jeffrey Burton Russell

    Author of A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages

18. Erwin Panofsky

    Author of Meaning in the Visual Arts, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism

19. Christopher Hill

    Author of The world turned upside down: radical ideas during the English Revolution

20. Jacob Burckhardt

    Author of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Reflections on History