This path-breaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis
has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society
and culture. She rescues men and women from oblivion using her
unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence, and
archival sleuthing to uncover the past. Davis brings to life a
dazzling cast of extraordinary people, revealing their thoughts,
emotions, and choices in the world in which they lived. Thanks to
Davis we can meet the impostor Arnaud du Tilh in her classic, "The
Return of Martin Guerre", follow three remarkable lives in Women on
the Margins, and journey alongside a traveller and scholar in
Trickster Travels as he moves between the Muslim and Christian
worlds. In these conversations with Denis Crouzet, professor of
history at the Sorbonne and well-known specialist on the French
Wars of Religion, Davis examines the practices of history and
controversies in historical method. Their discussion reveals how
Davis has always pursued the thrill and joy of discovery through
historical research. Her quest is influenced by growing up Jewish
in the Midwest as a descendant of emigrants from Eastern Europe.
She recounts how her own life as a citizen, a woman, and a scholar
compels her to ceaselessly examine and transcend received opinions
and certitudes. Natalie Zemon Davis reminds the reader of the broad
possibilities to be found by studying the lives of those who came
before us, and teaches us how to give voice to what was once
silent.
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