The cheese and the worms: the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller

Machine generated contents note: 1.Menocchio 2.The town 3.First interrogation 4."Possessed?" 5.From Concordia to Portogruaro 6."To speak out against his superiors" 7.An archaic society 8."They oppress the poor" 9."Lutherans" and Anabaptists 10.A miller, a painter, a buffoon 11."My opinions came out of my head" 12.The books 13.Readers of the town 14.Printed pages and "fantastic opinions" 15.Blind alley? 16.The temple of the virgins 17.The funeral of the Madonna 18.The father of Christ 19.Judgment day 20.Mandeville 21.Pigmies and cannibals 22."God of nature" 23.The three rings 24.Written culture and oral culture 25.Chaos 26.Dialogue 27.Mythical cheeses and real cheeses 28.The monopoly over knowledge 29.The words of the Fioretto 30.The function of metaphors 31."Master," "steward," and "workers" 32.An hypothesis 33.Peasant religion 34.The soul 35."I don't know"

Contents note continued: 36.Two spirits, seven souls, four elements

37.The flight of an idea

38.Contradictions

39.Paradise

40.A new "way of life"

41."To kill priests"

42.A "new world"

43.End of the interrogations

44.Letter to the judges

45.Rhetorical figures

46.First sentence

47.Prison

48.Return to the town

49.Denunciations

50.Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew

51.Second trial

52."Fantasies"

53."Vanities and dreams"

54."Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God..."

55."If only I had died when I was fifteen"

56.Second sentence

57.Torture

58.Scolio

59.Pellegrino Baroni

60.Two millers

61.Dominant culture and subordinate culture

62.Letters from Rome.