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7%OFFNatalie Zemon Davis - Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives - 9780674955219 - V9780674955219
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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives

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Description for Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives Paperback. The subject of this book is the lives of three very different 17th-century women. They were not queens or noblewomen, one was a Jewish merchant, one a Catholic mystic visionary, and one a Protestant painter. From their writings and memoirs the author has retrieved their lives from obscurity. Num Pages: 372 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; BG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. Rather, they were living on the margins in seventeenth-century Europe, North America, and South America. Yet these women--one Jewish, one Catholic, one Protestant--left behind memoirs and writings that make for a spellbinding tale and that, in Davis' deft narrative, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674955219
SKU
V9780674955219
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99-1

About Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emerita, Princeton University.

Reviews for Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
[This] stylishly sketched seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biographical triptych is yet another exploration of how the modest in early modern Europe strove to fashion identities for themselves, but it is also more.
Arthur Quinn New York Times Book Review A treasure. Davis has written a scholarly...and multilayered history...Her three subjects come alive.
Ruth Johnstone Wales Christian Science Monitor Davis's ... Read more

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