The Cheese and the Worms

The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller

Auteur Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg

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ISBN

9780801843877

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg

Uitgeverij

Johns Hopkins University Press

Aantal pagina’s

208

Waar gaat het over?

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.

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