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Seminar 9 : The Cheese and the Worms
Summary
Although not the only focused local study of popular culture and attitudes to religion
and magic, Carlo Ginzburg‘s study The Cheese and the Worms had been widely
received and commented upon. The book presents what we might refer to as the
‗mental cosmos‘ of the 16 th century miller, Menocchio, who was brought to trial