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

Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
March 1 1992
EAN: 9780801843877
ISBN: 0801843871
Synopsis: "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.