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

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

Carlo Ginzburg with John Tedeschi (Translator)

224 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced

Description

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 u...

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