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The cheese and the worms : the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by John and Anne Tedeschi.
- Title
- The cheese and the worms : the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by John and Anne Tedeschi.
- Author
- Ginzburg, Carlo
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxvii, 177 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Formaggio e i vermi. English
- Alternative Title
- Formaggio e i vermi.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Church history
- History
- Note
- Translation of Il formaggio e i vermi.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Menocchio -- The town -- First interrogation -- "Possessed?" -- From Concordia to Portogruaro -- "To speak out against his superiors" -- An archaic society -- "They oppress the poor" -- "Lutherans" and Anabaptists -- A miller, a painter, a buffoon -- "My opinions came out of my head" -- The books -- Readers of the town -- Printed Pages and "Fantastic opinions" -- Blind Alley? -- The temple of the virgins -- The funeral of the madonna -- The father of Christ -- Judgement day -- Mandeville -- Pigmies and cannibals -- "God of nature" -- The three rings -- Written Culture and oral culture -- Chaos -- Dialogue -- Mythical Cheeses and real cheeses -- The monopoly over knowledge -- The words of the Fioretto -- The function of metaphors -- "Master," "steward," and "workers" -- An hypothesis -- Peasant Religion -- The soul -- "I don't know" -- Two spirits, seven souls, four elements -- The flight of an idea -- Contradictions -- Paradise -- A new "way of life" -- "To kill priests" -- A "new world" -- End of the interrogations -- Letter to the judges -- Rhetorical figures -- First sentence -- Prison -- Return to the town -- Denunciations -- Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew -- Second trial -- "Fantasies" -- "Vanities and dreams" -- "Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God..." -- "If only I had died when I was fifteen" -- Second sentence -- Torture -- Scolio -- Pellegrino Baroni -- Two millers -- Dominant culture and subordinate cluture -- Letters from Rome.
- ISBN
- 0801823366
- 0801843871 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^79003654^//r822
- OCLC
- 6040989
- SCSB-12868490
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library