The Cheese And The Worms: The Cosmos Of A Sixteenth-Century Miller
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ISBN : 9780801843877
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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."
Specifications of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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Author | Carlo Ginzburg |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
ISBN-10 | 0801843871 |
ISBN-13 | 9780801843877 |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Number Of Pages | 208 |
Publication Date | 1992-03-01 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 0.57 inch. |
Length | 9.16 inch. |
Width | 6.07 inch. |
Weight | 0.66 pounds. |
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