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Natalie Zemon Davis
Birth date: November 08, 1928
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DanAllosso
DanAllosso rated it 12 years ago
While Davis rightly argues that the rich settings and thorough backgrounds and back-stories help us enter the world these characters inhabited, this creates an air of narrative omniscience. Davis compounds this impression by stating conclusions (“Bertrande dreamed of a husband and lover who would c...
AC
AC rated it 15 years ago
Read long ago - A remarkable book -- collection of very granular studies of the social and economic life of late Medieval/early modern France - esp. on premodern saturnalia and misrule festivals... A tour de force.
audreyhawkins
audreyhawkins rated it 16 years ago
This account of a 16th century identity theft is very accessible, and provides a lot of historical context for the lay reader unfamiliar with peasant life in 16th c. France (!). What I enjoyed most, however, was the history of the story after the trial takes place. Davis follows an account from the ...
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