Ginzburg, Carlo. Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

Ginzburg, Carlo. Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Two interesting ideas: that contemporary social and political forms do not simply construct myths, but rather the relationship between them is more complex, with certain mythical elements influencing social and political forms now, in a direct chronological order (history => present, not vice versa as social constructivists would argue). He also discusses, in his The Inquisitor as Anthropologist, of the inherently dialogical nature of even texts of inquisitors' investigations and interrogations, as the latter had to incorporate and translate semantic codes of suspects.