Overview :Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of ... Read More
Overview :These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixte... Read More
Overview :The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer's day in 1560, a ma... Read More
Overview :The written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through... Read More
Overview :As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the ea... Read More
Overview :To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwi... Read More
Overview :Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, mar... Read More
Overview :Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Douvan's Operation Mind is a body of evidence, a prophetic warning, and a call to action about the urgency... Read More
Overview :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, fr... Read More