The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by John Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi

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

John Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi

208 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced

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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 k...

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