The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
Carlo Ginzburg explores the worldview of a sixteenth-century miller, using one individual’s intellectual universe to illuminate broader questions of culture, belief, and everyday life. The Cheese and the Worms offers a focused, compelling study of how people in the past made sense of the world around them.
About This Book
Carlo Ginzburg examines the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller in this work of historical scholarship.
The book focuses on the ideas and worldview of an individual living in the sixteenth century.
By centering a miller’s understanding of the world, it explores the relationship between everyday life, culture, and historical thought.
This concise study offers readers a distinctive perspective on the past through the reconstruction of one person’s intellectual universe.
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