Livre broché, 208 pages
Langue : English
Publié 1 mars 1992 par The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The Cheese and the Worms (Italian: Il formaggio e i vermi) is a scholarly work by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, published in 1976. The book is a notable example of cultural history, the history of mentalities and microhistory. It is "probably the most popular and widely read work of microhistory".The study examines the unique religious beliefs and cosmology of Menocchio (1532–1599), also known as Domenico Scandella, who was an Italian miller from the village of Montereale, twenty-five kilometers north of Pordenone. He was from the peasant class and not a learned aristocrat or man of letters, Ginzburg places him in the tradition of popular culture and pre-Christian naturalistic peasant religions. Due to his outspoken beliefs he was declared a heresiarch (heretic) and burnt at the stake during the Roman Inquisition.
Sujets
- Blasphemy, heresy, apostasy
- Social history
- Medieval
- Modern World History (Circa 1450 To Present)
- Reformation (1517-1648)
- History - General History
- History: World
- Italy
- Christian Theology - Catholic
- Europe - Italy
- History / Europe / General
- Christianity - Theology - Catholic