{"product_id":"the-cheese-and-the-worms-the-cosmos-of-a-sixteenth-century-miller","title":"The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarlo Ginzburg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor 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 formed—just as cheese is made out of milk—and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMarch 1, 1992 by Johns Hopkins University Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Good \/ Paperback \/ Carlo Ginzburg","offer_id":51164187132202,"sku":"9780801843877","price":33.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/71148.jpg?v=1771446422","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/the-cheese-and-the-worms-the-cosmos-of-a-sixteenth-century-miller","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}