 | S. R. F. Price - History - 1984 - 324 pages
...developed an idiosyncratic view of the universe, even believing that the world was created from chaos, 'just as cheese is made out of milk - and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels' (Ginzburg (1980) 6). These ideas are allegedly'derived from a seemingly ancient oral tradition'... | |
 | Dominick LaCapra - History - 1985 - 152 pages
...relations of chaos, God, and "the most holy majesty." At one point he argues that "all was chaos . . . and out of that bulk a mass formed — just as cheese...milk — and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels. The most holy majesty decreed that these should be God and the angels" (quoted, p. 53). Here... | |
 | Philip Koch - Philosophy - 1994 - 400 pages
...his theories on the learned judges. Here is some of what they heard: I have said that in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire...milk — and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels. The most holy majesty decreed that these should be God and the angels, and among that number... | |
 | John B. Thompson - Social Science - 1995 - 332 pages
...book for publication. JBT, Cambridge, December 1994 Introduction 'I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire...milk - and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels. The most holy majesty decreed that these should be God and the angels, and among that number... | |
 | David R. Fideler - Philosophy - 1995 - 502 pages
...behavior. Genesis, according to Menocchio, occurred as follows: [In the beginning] all was chaos . . . and out of that bulk a mass formed — just as cheese...milk — and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels. The most holy majesty decreed that these should be God and the angels, and among that number... | |
 | Val Dusek - Science - 1999 - 408 pages
...of his barely literate miller and that of the upper classes. Menocchio stated, "All was chaos . . . and out of that bulk a mass formed — just as cheese...made out of milk — and worms appeared in it," and angels "were produced by nature just as the worms were produced by a cheese^ Some scholars have attempted... | |
 | Alain Cabantous - History - 2002 - 316 pages
...observation of daily life or the experience offered by nature. When, toward 1580, Menocchio declared that "all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; 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,"... | |
 | Jennifer Michael Hecht - Religion - 2010 - 578 pages
...version of Menocchio's cosmology that ended up in the Holy Office read: I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire...milk — and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels. The most holy majesty decreed that these should be God and the angels, and among that number... | |
 | Cristina Mazzoni - Religion - 2005 - 252 pages
...explain his unusual, materialistic theory on the origin of the world: "I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire...milk — and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels."1 Rather than branding him as impious but innocuous — historian Carlo Ginzburg, to whom we... | |
 | Robert M. Burns - History - 2006 - 512 pages
...his notions on the origins of the world and the universe, "that, in my opinion all was chaos . . . and out of that bulk a mass formed — just as cheese...milk — and worms appeared in it, and these were angels. The most holy majesty decreed that these should be God and the angels, and among that number... | |
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Menocchio reveal that his shameless "preaching and dogmatizing" aroused the ire of the Inquisition and led to his arrest. Under oath, Menocchio shared his homespun cosmogony: I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water,... 
