The Cheese and the Worms Carlo Ginzburg 1980 Hardcover DJ Johns Hopkins
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1980 hardcover edition in two-tone dark blue and red cloth with silver spine lettering, issued by The Johns Hopkins University Press with the original illustrated dust jacket. Translated from the Italian by John and Anne Tedeschi. The book contains xxvii pages of introductory material followed by 177 numbered pages, with illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. Carlo Ginzburg's influential study reconstructs the intellectual world of Domenico Scandella, known as Menocchio, a sixteenth-century miller from Friuli who was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition. Drawing extensively on surviving trial records, Ginzburg examines how Menocchio combined ideas derived from books, oral traditions, popular beliefs, and his own interpretations into an unusual cosmology. The work became one of the best-known examples of microhistory, using the life and beliefs of a single otherwise obscure individual to explore broader questions about popular culture, literacy, religion, and the relationship between elite and vernacular ideas in early modern Europe. Johns Hopkins describes the work as an influential study of sixteenth-century popular culture based on Menocchio's Inquisition records. Originally published in Italy in 1976; this English translation was copyrighted in 1980 by The Johns Hopkins University Press and Routledge & Kegan Paul. The bibliographic record for this edition identifies it as the 1980 Johns Hopkins hardcover, ISBN10 0801823366, with pagination of xxvii + 17
- Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Year: 1980
- ISBN: 9780801823367
- Condition: Very Good
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