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The Cheese and the Worms

Name: The Cheese and the Worms
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421409887
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421409887

The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

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By Carlo Ginzburg, Translated by John Tedeschi, Preface by Carlo Ginzburg, Translated by Anne C. Tedeschi
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 224

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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 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 creation: 'All was chaos, that is earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and of that bulk a mass formedjust as cheese is made out of milkand worms appeared in it, and these were the angels.'Ginzburgs influential book book has been widely regarded as an early example of the analytic, case-oriented approach known as microhistory. In a thoughtful new preface, Ginzburg offers his own corollary to Menocchios story as he considers the discrepancy between the intentions of the writer and what gets written. The Italian millers story and Ginzburgs work continue to resonate with modern readers because they focus on how oral and written culture are inextricably linked. Menocchios 500-year-old challenge to authority remains evocative and vital today.

Preface to the 2013 Edition
Translators' Note
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the Italian Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Menocchio
2. The town
3. First interrogation
4. ""Possessed?""
5. From Concordia to Portogruaro
6. ""To speak out against his superiors""
7. An archaic society
8. ""They oppress the poor""
9. ""Lutherans"" and Anabaptists
10. A miller, a painter, a buffoon
11. ""My opinions came out of my head""
12. The books
13. Readers of the town
14. Printed pages and ""fantastic opinions""
15. Blind alley?
16. The temple of the virgins
17. The funeral of the Madonna
18. The father of Christ
19. Judgment day
20. Mandeville
21. Pigmies and cannibals
22. ""God of nature""
23. The three rings
24. Written culture and oral culture
25. Chaos
26. Dialogue
27. Mythical cheeses and real cheeses
28. The monopoly over knowledge
29. The words of the Fioretto
30. The function of metaphors
31. ""Master,"" ""steward,"" and ""workers""
32. An hypothesis
33. Peasant religion
34. The soul
35. ""I don't know""
36. Two spirits, seven souls, four elements
37. The flight of an idea
38. Contradictions
39. Paradise
40. A new ""way of life""
41. ""To kill priests""
42. A ""new world""
43. End of the interrogations
44. Letter to the judges
45. Rhetorical figures
46. First sentence
47. Prison
48. Return to the town
49. Denunciations
50. Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew
51. Second trial
52. ""Fantasies""
53. ""Vanities and dreams""
54. ""Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God...""
55. ""If only I had died when I was fifteen""
56. Second sentence
57. Torture
58. Scolio
59. Pellegrino Baroni
60. Two millers
61. Dominant culture and subordinate culture
62. Letters from Rome
Notes
Index of Names

""Why should we reread the story of Menocchio thirty-eight years after its publication? First, this new edition is a timely update. Ginzburg has penned a new preface and bibliographical information has been augmented. Second, because it is a work of rare scholarship that no student should forget, despite the fact that the context in which this book was crafted has significantly changed.""

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