Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg

male, 70 years old
Jewish, University of California, Los Angeles, Italian Renaissance, European history, ecstasies, microhistory
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, "The Cheese and the Worms: The...
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

male, 80 years old
historian, history from below, l'histoire immobile, Les paysans de Languedoc, Les Moutiers-en-Cinglais, The Peasants of Languedoc…microhistory
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) is a noted French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the "ancien regime", focusing on the...
Adriano Sofri

Adriano Sofri

male, 67 years old
Luigi Calabresi, Miscarriage of justice, autonomist, Medieval Inquisition, witch hunt, microhistory
Adriano Sofri (Trieste, August 1, 1942), Italian politician, intellectual, journalist, writer. Former leader of the autonomist movement "Lotta...
Pierre Clergue

Pierre Clergue

male
13th century, Charmaine Craig, microhistory, Montaillou, from Montaillou, fourteenth century
Pierre Clergue was a priest in the village of Montaillou, France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. He is the central figure in...
Pope Benedict Benedict XII

Pope Benedict Benedict XII

male, deceased (1342)
bishop of Mirepoix, Roman Catholic bishop, Comté de Foix, abbot, cistercian, French…microhistory
Pope Benedict XII, born Jacques Fournier, was Pope from 1334 to 1342. Little is known of the origins of Jacques Fournier. He is believed to have...