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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
informative
(read for class) i am not the biggest fan of microhistories because i cannot force myself to look past the shaky bridges built between pieces of evidence, but overall this was a very charming 'reconstruction' that assumes a little too much, but is still enjoyable
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
excellent narrative-history retelling of a weird incident in 16th century france wherein a peasant (Martin) abandons his young wife and child (and his modest inheritance of land) for a decade. Then he returns, except it's an impostor. The new fake Martin gets into grief with his uncle, who outs him as a fake, except the wife of both Martins takes the side of the new fake Martin, and a strange trial ensues. New fake Martin is winning people over with his encyclopedic knowledge of Martin's life before the "return," when a dude with a wooden leg shows up in town claiming to be the actual real Martin.
It's a little dry, but also quite compact. Definitely recommended if you are into early modern domesticity and legal fables. It's like an episode of SVU written by carlo ginzburg.
It's a little dry, but also quite compact. Definitely recommended if you are into early modern domesticity and legal fables. It's like an episode of SVU written by carlo ginzburg.
I usually don’t rate books I read for class, but this is really a stellar example of history.
I had to read this book for school. I would never have read it other wise.
Read for prelims.
This. Is. So. Good. Natalie Zemon Davis plops you down into this world and makes you care what happens to these people while never losing sight of the bigger points she’s making about how historians can get at the inner lives of people who didn’t leave their own written records. Right up there with A Midwife’s Tale as my all-time favorite historical book. I’ll be coming back to this one for the methodology, because this is the kind of history I want to do.
*Bonus points for this having an audio version.
This. Is. So. Good. Natalie Zemon Davis plops you down into this world and makes you care what happens to these people while never losing sight of the bigger points she’s making about how historians can get at the inner lives of people who didn’t leave their own written records. Right up there with A Midwife’s Tale as my all-time favorite historical book. I’ll be coming back to this one for the methodology, because this is the kind of history I want to do.
*Bonus points for this having an audio version.
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
informative
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced