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Davis, Natalie Zemon was born on November 8, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Julian Leon and Helen (Lamport) Zemon.
(These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explo...)
These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.
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(These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explo...)
These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.
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( The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuad...)
The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago. Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode. Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines. Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.
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(Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays der berühmten amer...)
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 verändert hat. Die populäre Kultur erscheint selbst als dynamisches Moment dieses Umbruchs.Mit ihrer »dichten Beschreibung« der städtischen Kultur des 16. Jahrhunderts eröffnete die Autorin neue historische Sichtweisen und setzte einen Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Geschichtsschreibung. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)
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Davis, Natalie Zemon was born on November 8, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Julian Leon and Helen (Lamport) Zemon.
Bachelor, Smith College, 1949; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Smith College, 1977; Master of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1959; D honorary, Universite Lyon II (France), 1983; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Northwestern University, 1983; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Rochester, 1986; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Chicago, 1992; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), George Washington University, 1987; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Reed College, 1988; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Muhlenberg College, 1989; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New School for Social Research, 1989; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colby College, 1990; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1992; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Chicago, 1992; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Tufts U., 1987; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Williams College, 1987; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Goucher College, 1989; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Muhlenberg College, 1989; Doctor of Laws (honorary), New School for Social Research, 1989; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Columbia University, 1990; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Toronto, 1991; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1992.
Lecturer to assistant professor, Brown U., 1959-1963; assistant professor to associate professor, U. Toronto, 1963-1971; professor of history, University of California-Berkeley, 1971-1977; Henry Charles Lea professor of history, Princeton University, since 1978; director Shelby Cullom Davis Center for History Studies, Princeton University, since 1990.
(Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays der berühmten amer...)
( The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuad...)
(These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explo...)
(These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explo...)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Renaissance Society American, Society French History Studies (president 1976-1977), American History Association (council 1972-1975, president modern history section 1980, president 1987), Society Reformation Research, American Antiquarian Society (selected member 1987).
Married H. Chandler Davis, August 16, 1948. Children: Aaron Bancroft, Hannah Penrose, Simone Weil.