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An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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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 peasant wife - to
explore complex social issues. Davis takes rich material - dramatic
enough to have been the basis of two major films - and uses it to
explore issues of identity, women's role in peasant society, the
interior lives of the poor, and the structure of village society,
all of them topics that had previously proved difficult for
historians to grapple with. Davis displays fine qualities of
reasoning throughout - not only in constructing her own narrative,
but also in persuading her readers of her point of view. Her work
is also a fine example of good interpretation - practically every
document in the case needs to be assessed for issues of meaning.
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