**Carlo Ginzburg *was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller *, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath and * The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.***Ma...

**Carlo Ginzburg *was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller *, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath and * The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.***Martin Ryle *is Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Sussex. His previous books include The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament , Ecology and Socialism, and Journeys in Ireland. Kate Soperteaches philosophy and cultural theory at the University of North London. Her previous works include On Human Needs , * What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human and, with Verso, Troubled Pleasures.