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Society and Culture in Early Modern France:

Eight Essays
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Polity Press, 1975 - History - 362 pages
This classic collection of essays has already established itself as a rich source of material for students of sixteenth and seventeenth-century France. Natalie Davis focuses on the lower social orders - peasants, artisans, the poor generally - and in a series of brilliantly penetrating cast-studies throws fresh light on some of the great issues of social change: the impact of printing, the rise of protestantism, the role of women, power-relations between groups and classes'.

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Read long ago - A remarkable book -- collection of very granular studies of the social and economic life of late Medieval/early modern France - esp. on premodern saturnalia and misrule festivals... A tour de force. Read full review

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About the author (1975)

Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita at Princeton University. Her books include "Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision" and "Woman on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives," She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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