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Book Title: The Cheese And The Worms: The Cosmos Of A Sixteenth-Century ...
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cheese and the Worms : the Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Historiography, Europe / Italy, Christian Church / History, Religious, Christianity / Denominations, Europe / Renaissance, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Rural
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 7.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
