Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
by Natalie Zemon Davis
Rating
LanguageEN
ISBN
9780674955219
Description
As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity. Equally remarkable though very different, the three women profiled here--one a Jewish merchant and mother of t...As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity. Equally remarkable though very different, the three women profiled here--one a Jewish merchant and mother of twelve, one a Catholic mystic visionary, and one a Protestant painter and naturalist--left behind memoirs and writings that make for spellbinding tales. 41 halftones. 400 pp .