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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
by Ginzburg, CarloEdition:
Reprint
ISBN13:
9780801843877
ISBN10:
0801843871
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
3/1/1992
Publisher(s):
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as Menocchio, to show how one person responded to the confusing political and religious conditions of his time. For a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly literate. In his trial testimony he made references to more than a dozen books, including the Bible, Boccaccio's Decameron, Mandeville's Travels, and a "mysterious" book that may have been the Koran. And what he read he recast in terms familiar to him, as in his own version of the creation: "All was chaos, that is earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and of that bulk a mass formed -- just as cheese is made out of milk -- and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels."
Table of Contents
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| Index of Names | 173 |
