Natalie Zemon Davis: 4 books

Book cover of A Passion for History: Natalie Zemon Davis, Conversations with Denis Crouzett
by Natalie Zemon Davis, Denis Crouzet, Michael Wolfe (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

The pathbreaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society and culture. She rescues men and women from oblivion using her unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence, and archival sleuthing to uncover the past. Davis...
Book cover of Trickster Travels

Trickster Travels

A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

by Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007

An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author...
Book cover of Humanismus, Narrenherrschaft und die Riten der Gewalt

Humanismus, Narrenherrschaft und die Riten der Gewalt

Gesellschaft und Kultur im frühneuzeitlichen Frankreich

by Natalie Zemon Davis, Norbert Schindler
Language: German
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays der berühmten amerikanischen Historikerin Natalie Zemon Davis geben eine subtile und faszinierend konkrete Darstellung des gesellschaftlichen Umbruchs am Beginn der Neuzeit, der nicht nur die Lebensweise der Eliten, sondern auch der unteren Bevölkerungsschichten...
Book cover of The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis, Martin Guerre, Arnault Du Tilh
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1984

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du TiIh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the noted historian who served as a consultant for the film, adds new dimensions to this famous legend.
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