The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
In The Cheese and the Worms, Carlo Ginzburg examines the worldview of a sixteenth-century miller. Through this focused historical study, the book considers how one person’s ideas can reveal wider patterns in the culture and intellectual life of an era.
About This Book
Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms examines the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller.
The book focuses on the relationship between one individual’s ideas and the broader culture of his time.
As a work of historical interpretation, it presents a close study of a life situated within the sixteenth century.
Ginzburg’s subject offers a distinctive perspective on the ways people understood their world in the past.
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