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An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre

An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre

Tendler, Joseph

Paperback

Series: Macat Library

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1912127601
ISBN13: 9781912127603
Publisher: Macat Library
Published: Jul 15 2017
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

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.

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