Carlo Ginzburg obituary

Italian academic and author who challenged traditional approaches with his pursuit of microhistoryIt would be no exaggeration to claim that the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, who has died aged 87, revolutionised the practice and understanding of history. In particular, in a series of books published in the 1970s - above all, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (1976) - he embraced a new field of study called microhistory, which challenged traditional ways of und...