Natalie Zemon Davis: 4 books
by Natalie Zemon Davis, Denis Crouzet, Michael Wolfe (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
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...
Trickster Travels
A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
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...
Humanismus, Narrenherrschaft und die Riten der Gewalt
Gesellschaft und Kultur im frühneuzeitlichen Frankreich
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...
by Natalie Zemon Davis, Martin Guerre, Arnault Du Tilh
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1984
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.