The Cheese and the Worms

Name: The Cheese and the Worms
Author: Carlo Ginzburg

by Carlo Ginzburg

Microhistory of a sixteenth-century miller accused of heresy by Inquisition

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Carlo Ginzburg

Ginzburg's microhistory — exemplified in The Cheese and the Worms — recovers the worldview of a 16th-century miller through Inquisition records to illuminate a cosmos of popular culture invisible to traditional history. He is the most influential practitioner of microhistory.

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