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Bezig met laden... De kaas en de wormen het wereldbeeld van een zestiende-eeuwse molenaardoor Carlo Ginzburg
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Then there is the fascinating study of Menocchio, the sixteenth-century miller. Historian Carlo Ginzburg anatomizes his intellectual universe by triangulating between Menocchio's few books and the depositions taken at his trial for heresy. In The Cheese and the Worms, Ginzburg combines scholarly excavation with shrewd surmise to suggest how this lettered worker assembled a cosmology--one coprised in part from the rich reserves of the dominantly oral culture, and in part from his intense and methodical, if also fanciful, readings of the few texts he owned.
The now-classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition. The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and social conflicts of the society Menocchio lived in. For a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly literate. In his trial testimony he made references to more than a dozen books, including the Bible, Boccaccio's Decameron, Mandeville's Travels, and a "mysterious" book that may have been the Koran. And what he read he recast in terms familiar to him, as in his own version of the creation: "All was chaos, that is earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and of that bulk a mass formed--just as cheese is made out of milk--and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels." Ginzburg's influential book has been widely regarded as an early example of the analytic, case-oriented approach known as microhistory. In a thoughtful new preface, Ginzburg offers his own corollary to Menocchio's story as he considers the discrepancy between the intentions of the writer and what gets written. The Italian miller's story and Ginzburg's work continue to resonate with modern readers because they focus on how oral and written culture are inextricably linked. Menocchio's 500-year-old challenge to authority remains evocative and vital today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)273.6Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Doctrinal controversies & heresies Heresies 10th-16th century: Antinomian, Bogomils, Cathars and Patarenes, the Waldenses, the Anabaptists, PauliciansLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Ginzburg geeft een interpretatie van een inquisitieproces aan de hand van de nptulen van de ondervraging. Zelf krijgen we niet veel te lezen van wat in de notulen staat. We kunnen dus enkel de interpretatie beoordelen.
Ginzburg geeft vooral aan dat er naast de officiële opvattingen van het christendom een materialistisch volksgeloof op de achtergrond is gebleven dat doordat de reformatie het voorbeeld geeft met minder schroom in de openbaarheid komt. De molenaar in dit geval is zo iemand die geen blad meer voor de mond neemt. ( )