Carlo ginzburgs seminal work about a northwestern italian miller subjected to the inquisition raises a number of important points regarding peasant modes of thinking, the intersection of popular and high culture, and the cultural and social impacts of contemporaneous religious and literary texts. The cheese and the worms johns hopkins university press. Publication date 19920301 topics blasphemy, heresy. Carlo ginzburg is retired from scuola normale superiore, pisa italy. Other articles where the cheese and the worms is discussed. 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. The cheese and the worms by carlo ginzburg abebooks. The cosmos of a sixteenthcentury miller by carlo ginzburg and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The cosmos of a sixteenthcentury miller carlo ginzburg 9781421409887.
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