The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century

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 formedâ€•just as cheese is made out of milkâ€•and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels."
Country USA
Manufacturer Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780801843877
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780801843877
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller