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A 5 page paper which offers a critical analysis of the unique historical text, which is told as a narrative of a real-life person who lived during that time period. No additional sources are used.
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class structures keep many groups from active participation in society, history has been similarly prejudiced, preferring to rely upon the aristocratic educated man instead of the common man of possibly
limited education and status. Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg has masterfully attempted to amend this gross omission in his innovative text, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a
Sixteenth-Century Miller. As the title indicates, Ginzburg presents Italy during the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of a working-class miller named Domenico Scandella, more commonly known by
the villagers of his hometown of Fiuli as Menocchio. Ginzburg breathes life into Menocchios trial records compiled during the infamous Inquisition. By presenting the oftentimes confusing and contradictory
religious and scientific thoughts that were swirling around during the late Renaissance, Ginzburg offers a new and intriguing perspective that traditional history textbooks have ignored up until now. As the
book illustrates, Menocchio may have been dismissed by the elite as a common laborer, but his words reveal him to be a most uncommon of thinkers. The ways in
which regional cultures have shaped thoughts and attitudes has been typically reserved for anthropological studies. However, in The Cheese and the Worms, Ginzburg presides over marriage of history and
anthropology by considering how the separation of cultures into "high" and "low" (peasant) have generated often conflicting perceptions and ideas of the world and how it evolved through the centuries.
By concentrating on the high cultural icons like St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Galileo, it was assumed their conclusions typified those of everyone who lived during their respective time
periods. However, as Ginzburg points out in his Menocchio narrative, this is hardly the case. The written records were not necessarily representative of the value systems developed through
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