The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller - Couverture rigide

Ginzburg, Carlo

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ISBN 10 : 0801823366 ISBN 13 : 9780801823367

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980

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.

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."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Carlo Ginzburg has taught at the University of Bologna, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The recipient of the 2010 International Balzan Prize, he is author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller and Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0801823366
• ISBN 13: 9780801823367
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible