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    An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre

    Joseph Tendler

    The bizarre story of Martin Guerre-a peasant who disappears from a small village in sixteenth-century France and whose place is taken by an imposter-has captivated historians for centuries

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    An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre

    Joseph Tendler

    The bizarre story of Martin Guerre-a peasant who disappears from a small village in sixteenth-century France and whose place is taken by an imposter-has captivated historians for centuries.

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    Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France

    This collection of essays seeks to offer new insights and approaches to the relationship and significance of religion and violence as well as paying tribute to the immense contribution made…

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    Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    This classic collection of essays has already established itself as a rich source of material for students of sixteenth and seventeenth–century France.

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    Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    This classic collection of essays has already established itself as a rich source of material for students of sixteenth and seventeenth–century France.

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    The Gift in Sixteenth-century France

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    In this gem of a book, Natalie Zemon Davis explores the role of gifts in Renaissance France. From the King’s bounty to the beggar’s alms, from the lavish feasting and…

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    Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    Davis, whose book The Return of Martin Guerre was written while she served as consultant to the French film of the same name, now tackles the large issue of how…

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    Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    From acclaimed historian and novelist Natalie Zemon Davis comes an extraordinary story of a most enigmatic man.

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    The Return of Martin Guerre

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    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 Tilh, and reestablished his claim…

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    Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    Davis retrieves three women’s lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian were…

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    Gift In Sixteenth-Century France

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    In this gem of a book, Natalie Zemon Davis explores the role of gifts in Renaissance France. From the King’s bounty to the beggar’s alms, from the lavish feasting and…

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    Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France

    Natalie Zemon Davis

    An analysis of the crime stories which men and women in early modern France told their judges in order to try to obtain a royal pardon, using these stories as…

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    Trickster Travels

    Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto)

    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…

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    Listening to the Languages of the People: Lazare Sainean on Romanian, Yiddish, and French

    Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto)

    This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

    Lazar Saineanu…

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    The Allure of the Archives

    Arlette Farge

    An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation.

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    The Book of the City of Ladies

    Christine De Pizan

    Astonishing, original…an early chapter in women’s revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past. -The New York Times Book Review

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    The Book of the City of Ladies

    Christine de Pizan

    In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have…

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    History of Women in the West: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes

    This book draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in the contexts of work, marriage, and family.

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    Literacy and Historical Development: A Reader

    Replacing an unquestioned certainty that literacy’s powers are universal, independent, and determinative, this work brings together studies that support fresh concepts, contending that the importance and influences of literacy depend…

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