#The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

[toskarin]

it's been a while since I've published any sort of teasers for Jetkaiser.... so hopefully this counts?

[enlitment]

6 & 20 📖 :)

Thank you for the ask! ^^

6. what books have you read in the last month?

I've tried to really keep up with my reading list this summer (& mostly failed 🙃) but still managed to read a lot of great ones!

I also know for a fact that I won't be able to keep up with my reading list once school starts, so I felt like I should make use of the time I have in the summer

finished Rousseau's Confessions (was it last month? feels like only yesterday but also ages somehow)

Ginzuburg's The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (a great quick read for any history fans, especially if you like history of religion)

Ovid's Heroides (still need to read Metamorphoses!!)

Some of Diderot's work, namely Rameau's Nephew, d'Alembert's Dream & some shorter essays

Pearson's Voltaire Almighty (probably my favourite of the books I've read last month)

Dracula! (you were definitely the inspiration for that one! 🦇 It was really fun, plus Mina will from now on feature on all my favourite literary characters lists)

Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert on Plays (it's long I swear. It can hardly be called a letter the way he rants on for god-knows-how-many pages)

A Pocket History of Ireland + Modern Ireland: A Short Introduction. Ashamed to say I didn't get to anything more substantial yet. But maybe I'll manage to at least start Joyce?

20. what are things you look for in a book?

Lately? A stamp of approval from my mutuals ✨

But in general, I usually either pick up a book that's on a topic that interests me (like a favourite historical era) or a book by an author that I find interesting (works well for philosophers as well as those authors whose personal lives were even more of a wild ride than their books).

When it comes to the book itself, I appreciate a good prose. The kind of book that includes passages you want to immediately write down or memorise by heart.

Oh, and this will sound cheesy, but I really love books with which you can read between the lines? Like the ones that can reveal a lot about the author or about the times it was written, even if it's not immediately obvious.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

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.

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, Translated by John Tedeschi & Anne C. Tedeschi.

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[allbestnet]

European History r/History Recommended Reading List

The Illustrated History of Europe by Frederic Delouche 

A History of the Middle Ages by Joseph Dahmus

The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern.

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson.

The Royal Touch: Monarchy and Miracles in France and England by Marc Bloch.

Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1 and 2 by Fernand Braudel.

The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity by Peter Brown.

The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown.

Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum.

Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern.

The Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought by Heiko Augustinus Oberman

The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 by Mary Carruthers.

The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture by Mary Carruthers.

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill

The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle.

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

The Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson

Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades by John J. Robinson.

Barbarian West 400 - 1000 by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill

Who's Who In the Middle Ages by John Fines.

Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics by Chas S. Clifton.

The Secret History by Procopius

Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph by Alan Palmer.

Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker.

Napoleon: The Final Verdict edited by Philip J. Haythornthwaite

The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness by Gerhard Herm

A.D. 1000: A World on the Brink of Apocalypse by Richard Erdoes.

A History of Wales by John Davies.

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum.

The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlason

Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather

The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Empires of the Sea: the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley