I've just finished **The Cheese and the Worms ** by Carlo Ginzburg. It's been on my reading list for a long while. However, it didn't quite engage my attention. The approach , which I understand was radical at the time, was to focus on the details of a specific individual of 'lower' status rather than the grand narratives of Kings. In this case, a miller in Italy with some rather heterodox views on Christianity, and who is brought to trial for this worldview. This microhistory was perhaps novel at the time, though much more common since.

Unfortunately, the book (more of an extended monograph, really) gets caught up in some particularly niche points of theology. There's not a lot about the miller himself, perhaps due to the lack of documentary evidence outside the trial.

Overall, not as exciting as I was hoping.