{"title":"Natalie Zemon Davis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNatalie Zemon Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful historical narratives that illuminate the complexities of past societies through rich storytelling and meticulous research. Her works often explore extraordinary lives and the cultural dynamics of early modern Europe, blending biography and broader historical contexts to bring the past vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect engaging studies that challenge conventional history, weaving together social customs, identity, and human experience. Her books are essential for those interested in history that transcends dates and events, inviting a deeper understanding of the human stories behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-return-of-martin-guerre-by-natalie-zemon-davis-9780674766914","title":"The Return of Martin Guerre","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer's day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honourable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNatalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the \u003ci\u003eancien régime\u003c\/i\u003e, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeftly written to please both the general public and specialists, \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433024209132,"sku":"9780674766914","price":82.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674766914.jpg?v=1774765768"},{"product_id":"trickster-travels-by-natalie-zemon-davis-9780571234790","title":"Trickster Travels","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone, Al-Hasan al-Wazzan - or Leo Africanus - is a celebrated but hitherto elusive figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, in \u003ci\u003eTrickster Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244794786028,"sku":"9780571234790","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571234790-trickster-travels-1.jpg?v=1788014820"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/natalie-zemon-davis.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}