Der Käse und die Würmer

Name: Der Käse und die Würmer
Brand: Wagenbach
SKU: 9783803122230-V
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By Carlo Ginzburg

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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 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 "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."

Running 7.95 hours

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 204
Publication Date:: 1993-01-01
Publisher:: Wagenbach
Languages:: Published: German, Original: German
ISBN10:: 3803122236
Weight:: 222 g

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