{"product_id":"the-cheese-and-the-worms-the-cosmos-of-a-sixteenthcentury-miller-9780801843877","title":"The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ginzburg, Carlo. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801843877.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\nFor a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly literate. In his trial testimony he made references to more than a dozen books, including the Bible, Boccaccios Decameron, Mandevilles 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\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45253879267381,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801843871","price":35.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801843877_bee8e2e8-4a95-46f6-90cf-bf1559ccfd59.jpg?v=1779949475","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cheese-and-the-worms-the-cosmos-of-a-sixteenthcentury-miller-9780801843877","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}