The Cheese and the Worms The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller |
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| Author:
| Ginzburg, Carlo |
| Preface by:
| Ginzburg, Carlo |
| Translator:
| Tedeschi, John
Tedeschi, Anne C. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4214-0988-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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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 confusing political and religious conditions of the time. For ......
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 confusing political and religious conditions of the time. For ......