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The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
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ISBN 10 : 0674417348
Pages : 176 pages
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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.

The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis,Martin Guerre,Arnault Du Tilh

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

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The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis,Martin Guerre,Arnault Du Tilh

Tells the story of a sixteenth-century French imposter who convinced a peasant woman and her family that he was her missing husband

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The Wife of Martin Guerre

The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis

In this new edition of Janet Lewis’s classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis’s story is “a short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about

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The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre by Joseph Tendler

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 a bizarre court case that occurred in 16th-century France, she uses the tale of a missing soldier - whose disappearance threatens the livelihood of his

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Slaves on Screen

Slaves on Screen by Natalie Zemon Davis

People have been experimenting with different ways to write history for 2,500 years, yet we have experimented with film in the same way for only a century. Noted professor and historian Natalie Zemon Davis, consultant for the film The Return of Martin Guerre, argues that movies can do much more than

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Women on the Margins

Women on the Margins by Natalie Zemon Davis,Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus Natalie Zemon Davis

Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.

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Fiction in the Archives

Fiction in the Archives by Natalie Zemon Davis

To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable--a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These stories took the form of letters of remission, documents narrated to royal notaries by admitted offenders who, in effect, stated their case

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Society and Culture in Early Modern France

Society and Culture in Early Modern France by Natalie Zemon Davis

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,

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The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

Recounts the history of French imposter Arnaud du Tilh and his denouncement in court by Martin Guerre, whose identity, property, and wife du Tilh tried to claim. Reveals new information about sixteenth-century peasant life.

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Threads and Traces

Threads and Traces by Carlo Ginzburg

"This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburgʼs latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between

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The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre by Joseph Tendler

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 a bizarre court case that occurred in 16th-century France, she uses the tale of a missing soldier - whose disappearance threatens the livelihood of his

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Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth Century France

Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth Century France by Susan Broomhall

Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of profound transformation in the modes

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The Gift in Sixteenth century France

The Gift in Sixteenth century France by 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 display of civic dignitaries to the humble tokens exchanged by peasant bride and groom, the giving and receiving of gifts

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Peasant Fires

Peasant Fires by Richard Wunderli

"... lively and intellectually stimulating... " —Speculum "Wunderli... has lucidly reconstructed a controversial conflict in 15th-century south-central Germany.... this engaging narrative takes off from Hans Behem—the peasant who claimed to see the Virgin and gained followers until crushed by the established church—to explore larger forces at work in Germany on

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Filming and Performing Renaissance History

Filming and Performing Renaissance History by M. Burnett,A. Streete

Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises.

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