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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis (1983, Softcover)
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- ISBN
- 9780674766907
- Book Title
- Return of Martin Guerre
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1983
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- True Crime, History
- Topic
- Hoaxes & Deceptions, General, Europe / General
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Tells the story of a sixteenth-century French imposter who convinced a peasant woman and her family that he was her missing husband.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674766903
ISBN-13
9780674766907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4610186
Product Key Features
Book Title
Return of Martin Guerre
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Hoaxes & Deceptions, General, Europe / General
Publication Year
1983
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Davis combines a veteran researcher's expertise with a lay reader's curiosity and an easygoing style. She draws on sophisticated...work in land tenure, legal rights, and demography to reinterpret a 'prodigious history' among the French peasantry...Davis's book combines ingredients essential to good social history--painstaking historical research and a vividly empathetic imagination. The result of this happy combination is that character emerges in context...Davis's book balances possibility and constraint, character and situation. It puts people back into history but doesn't take the social and political forces out of it. The universal is there in particular, and it makes you think not only about their choices then, but about ours now., A fascinating reconstruction of a famous incident of impostorship and love in sixteenth-century rural France. Davis delicately deploys historical fact to suggest what is singular about the modern individual., In her intelligent and subtle analysis, the story gives an inside view of an otherwise little-known world, the private lives of peasants...Natalie Davis has also collaborated on an excellent film of the story (produced in France) as well as writing this book...About Martin Guerre, I would say, without hesitation, the movie was great, but Natalie Davis's book is even greater., The fullest account to date of this extraordinary tale. Davis has constructed a Fine piece of social history, a look into the lives of 16th-century peasants who left no records because they could neither read nor write., A fascinating anecdote, with enough colorful background, psychological complexity, and unsolved mysteries to delight any intelligent audience., Natalie Zemon Davis...has scoured the legal and notarial records of south-western France to recreate for the reader not merely a highly entertaining story but a vivid picture of the world which fashioned its principal characters. Her observations on property rights, inheritance, customs, family relationships and the mechanisms of the law are welded together by a rare blend of historical craft and imagination...Professor Davis's ability to combine lively narrative, wit, historical reflection and psychological analysis will ensure for this book a wide audience. It is truly captivating story with which to pass a rainy weekend; it is also a brilliantly professional reconstruction of the rural world of sixteenth-century France, which will both stimulate and inform for many years to come.
Dewey Edition
19
Lccn
83-000277
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
001.9/5/0924
Lc Classification Number
Ct9981.D8
Copyright Date
1983
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