Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.
发表于2024-11-21
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A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy. Ginzburg’s study The Cheese & The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller, first published in 1976, is one of those fascinating micro-histories which explores the remote lives of unknown and forgotten people. The story of Menocchio is one of a peasant life of obscurity but also one of strange and powerful ideas – confused and half-baked even – but powerful enough to bring him into conflict with the Inquisition and thereafter to the final purgatorial flames.
“I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos … and out of that bulk a mass formed – just as cheese is made out of milk – and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels, and among that number of angels, there was also God, he too having been created out of that mass at the same time ….”
This was Menocchio’s own version of Genesis, recounted at his first interrogation: it has perhaps something in common with modern chaos theory. Sadly, the inquisitors did not appreciate the idea that God might have started out as a worm in a primordial curd. Nonetheless, this was Menocchio’s oft-repeated explanation, one he never recanted. More than an independent mind, Menocchio’s was a rebel spirit, harshly critical of Church and clergy and determined to have his say. His ‘learning’ was a fascinating hotch-potch of superstition, oral tradition, ‘strong’ ideas, misunderstood reading, peasant radicalism, paganism and ‘cottage cheese cosmology’. Ginzburg’s book details the patient mechanism of the Inquisition in Counter Reformation Italy as it sought to eradicate suspected heresy and heretical groups rather in the same way that Stalin suspected counter-revolution everywhere.
Bruno burned for the books he had written; Menocchio burned for the books he had misunderstood. Both burnings demonstrate among other things the truth of the old adage; a little learning can be a dangerous thing. Menocchio’s roasting generated more heat than light but at least it did not contradict the Laws of Thermodynamics. Today in Montereale the visitor will find the Domenico Scandella Social Centre. In the piazza there is a monument in the form of a large wheel of cheese with one slice missing. Our heretic has become a hero. Stephen Dedalus said of Bruno that, heretic or not, ‘he was terribly burnt’; so was the poor miller from Friuli.
excellent!看到最后居然非常心酸/在媒介史的课上读的,很多研究都只能从出版者、作者、发行者的角度入手,此书则利用现有的材料建构起了读者的形象及其接受过程,感觉是很好的补充(我读书少_(:з」∠)_
评分快速翻完,微观史的代表作,想到了史景迁的《王氏之死》,故事性强的同时,有时候可能难免落入“overinterpretation”的窠臼。
评分An interesting precursor to many similar studies in late imperial Chinese history.
评分16世纪的梅诺其奥与16实际的拉伯雷可以互文……费弗尔的十六世纪信仰问题与这本十六世纪磨坊主的宇宙观其实两本书差别就特别大,并不是说一个是年鉴拍宏观史一个是微观史,而是说费弗尔侧重讨论的是后世拉伯雷接受史中的年代错置问题…但中间对于popular culture 两人观点相通
评分Argument is questionable, but very readable. I feel sad when I read the last several chapters stating that Menocchio was executed.
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