{"product_id":"the-judge-and-the-historian-marginal-notes-on-a-late-twentieth-century-miscarriage-of-justice-9781859843710","title":"The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eJ'accuse\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlo Ginzburg\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcstasies: Deciphering the Witches\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003e Sabbath\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51998204592402,"sku":"9781859843710","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4dd40a94-6e6f-41ec-ac6d-0d3e6b3c6dd9.jpg?v=1770143878","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-judge-and-the-historian-marginal-notes-on-a-late-twentieth-century-miscarriage-of-justice-9781859843710","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}