if you haven’t read “The Cheese and the Worms,” take this as your opportunity from the universe - the rare piece of academic history that’s not merely accessible but funny. turns out history is filled with funny little guys.
Tegan O’Neil
RIP to the historian Carlo Ginzburg, whose "The Cheese and the Worms" is an essential book for me. The history of an obscure medieval Italian heretic who believed the world was formed in the way cheese is, w/ "worms" as angels, and using him to peer into a lost world of "common' people
