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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

ISBN: 9780801843877 | 0801843871
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/1/1992

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SummaryTable of Contents
"A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of Books
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 on... MORE
Translators' Noteviii(3)
Preface to the English Editionxi(2)
Preface to the Italian Editionxiii(4)
Acknowledgmentsxxvii
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1 Menocchio
1(2)
2 The town
3(2)
3 First interrogation
5(1)
4 "Possessed?"
6(1)
5 From Concordia to Portogruaro
7(2)
6 "To speak out against his superiors"
9(4)
7 An archaic society
13(3)
8 "They oppress the poor"
16(2)
9 "Lutherans" and Anabaptists
18(3)
10 A miller, a painter, a buffoon
21(6)
11 "My opinions came out of my head"
27(1)
12 The books
28(2)
13 Readers of the town
30(1)
14 Printed pages and "fantastic opinions"
31(1)
15 Blind alley?
32(2)
16 The temple of the virgins
34(1)
17 The funeral of the Madonna
34(2)
18 The father of Christ
36(1)
19 Judgment day
37(4)
20 Mandeville
41(3)
21 Pigmies and cannibals
44(3)
22 "God of nature"
47(2)
23 The three rings
49(2)
24 Written culture and oral culture
51(1)
25 Chaos
52(2)
26 Dialogue
54(2)
27 Mythical cheeses and real cheeses
56(2)
28 The monopoly over knowledge
58(2)
29 The words of the Fioretto
60(2)
30 The function of metaphors
62(1)
31 "Master," "steward," and "workers"
62(3)
32 An hypothesis
65(3)
33 Peasant religion
68(1)
34 The soul
69(1)
35 "I don't know"
70(1)
36 Two spirits, seven souls, four elements
71(1)
37 The flight of an idea
72(3)
38 Contradictions
75(1)
39 Paradise
76(1)
40 A new "way of life"
77(3)
41 "To kill priests"
80(1)
42 A "new world"
81(5)
43 End of the interrogations
86(1)
44 Letter to the judges
87(2)
45 Rhetorical figures
89(2)
46 First sentence
91(2)
47 Prison
93(2)
48 Return to the town
95(3)
49 Denunciations
98(3)
50 Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew
101(1)
51 Second trial
102(1)
52 "Fantasies"
103(3)
53 "Vanities and dreams"
106(2)
54 "Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God..."
108(1)
55 "If only I had died when I was fifteen"
109(1)
56 Second sentence
110(1)
57 Torture
111(1)
58 Scolio
112(5)
59 Pellegrino Baroni
117(4)
60 Two millers
121(4)
61 Dominant culture and subordinate culture
125(2)
62 Letters from Rome
127(2)
Notes129(44)
Index of Names173


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