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 Soper teaches 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.