The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and social conflicts of the society Menocchio lived in. 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 recas
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Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release date: 4 September 2013
ISBN-10 : 1421409887 | ISBN-13: 9781421409887
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Release date: 4 September 2013
ISBN-10 : 1421409887 | ISBN-13: 9781421409887
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