The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du TiIh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book,...

Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe...

Humanismus, Narrenherrschaft und die Riten der Gewalt von Davis, Natalie Zemon

In "Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives", die Autorin Natalie Zemon Davis untersucht die Leben von drei außergewöhnlichen Frauen des 17. Jahrhunderts, die sich den gesellschaftlichen Normen widersetzten und ihren...