Menocchio: The Heretic Who Declared God a Worm

There once was an Italian peasant who had a stoner theory where God was a worm and the universe was cheese. It got him into trouble.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:15 - Wallet
03:07 - Peasant Religion
06:22 - Menocchio's Life
08:15 - Menocchio's Main Theory of the Universe
09:29 - Menocchio's Trials With Heresy
12:47 - Conviction and Relapse
13:46 - Menocchio's Weirdness Preserved His History

Music used:
"Teller of the Tale", "Sneaky Snitch", and "Chromatic 3 Fantasia" by Kevin MacLeod
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Sources:
Ginzburg, Carlo. The cheese and the worms the cosmos of a sixteenth-century Miller. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013.
J. Geary, Patrick. “Peasant Religion in Medieval Europe.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 12, no. 1 (2001): 185–209. https://doi.org/10.3406/asie.2001.1170.