Puzzles
a seminar on the ‘benefit of christ’
$42.90
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
19 April 2026
Summary
Patience Games: Unraveling History Through Slow Reading
A seminar, a sixteenth-century heretical text, and the art of slow reading—this is historical research as you’ve never seen it before.
Patience Games: A Seminar on the ‘Benefit of Christ’ invites readers into the unpredictable world of scholarly discovery, where interpretation is not a straight path but a labyrinth of dialogue revision. At the heart of this book is a seminar held forty years ag…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803095431 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803095431 |
| Series: | The Italian List |
| Author: | Carlo Ginzburg, Adriano Prosperi, Thomas Haskell Simpson |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Imprint: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 19 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg has taught at the University of Bologna, UCLA, and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He has received numerous awards and has published several books including Fear Reverence Terror and The Soul of Brutes.
Adriano Prosperi is an emeritus professor of modern history at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His works include Infanticide, Secular Justice, Religious Debate in Early Modern Europe and Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe.
Thomas Haskell Simpson is associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University and a translator of many works from Italian. He has translated the works of Giorgio Agamben, Carlo Ginzburg, and Gianni Carchia.
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