Description
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 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."
Title in Armenian | Քարլօ Գինսբուրգ - Պանիրն ու որդերը․ ԺԶ դարու ջաղացպանի մը տեզերքը |
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Author(s) | Carlo Ginzburg |
Translator(s) | Minas Luryan |
Language(s) | Western Armenian |
Publisher(s) | Antares |
Year | 2024 |
Pages | 456 |
Binding | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9789939982373 |
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