The Return of Martin Guerre: Natalie Zemon Davis: 9780674766914


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Publication Date: July 1984 ISBN-10: 0,674,766,911 ISBN-13 :978-0,674,766,914 Edition: reprint
The invention of the farmers Eernuodu Tilh almost persuaded the learned judge in the parliament building in Toulouse, when a summer’s day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, condemned the Arno, and rebuild his identity property, and Martin’s wife GUERRE. Astonishing case captured the imagination of the European continent. Told and restated centuries since Martin GUERRE the story has become a legend, I still remember the village in the Pyrenees, the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago.

A famous historian, served as the consultant Martin GUERRE a new French film, inspection file and Codex, add a new dimension to the mysterious story: we are led to think about how can an ordinary person become a liar sixteenth century Why Bertrande ROLS is a worthy peasant woman, willing to accept that this man is her husband, and a lawyer, poet, and man of letters like Montaigne, why become so fascinated by the plot.

Natalie Zemon Davis to rebuild the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way to reveal a hidden attachment and emotion, nonliterate sixteenth century villagers. Here, we attempt to their identity in the world of property and the family’s traditional concept of men and women to change the religious idea of ​​fashion. When we learn what people get involved in the criminal court in the operation of the old regime, and judge how hard to decide who is a person’s fingerprints and photo in the previous days. We feel the secret laws and eloquent man sweet village liar, a rare identification across class lines between affinity.

Deftly written, the general public and experts, to return Martin · GUERRE interested to know more ordinary families, especially women in the past, creating a literary legend. This is a significant psychological narrative self-fashioning station and lying began.

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