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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
by Davis, Natalie Zemon
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very fine in fine dj; top front of dj very faint wrinkle; top right corner of board slightly bumped; of interior clean and crisp
- ISBN 10
- 067495520X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674955202
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About This Item
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very fine in fine dj; top front of dj very faint wrinkle; top right corner of board slightly bumped; of interior clean and crisp; owner sticker with signature on dedication page in as new dust-jacket. Black glossy illustrated dj with archival mylar sleeve and burgundy cloth boards; 360 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates: b&w illustrations, maps; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 219-339) and index. "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, tell us more about the life of early modern Europe than many an official history. All these women were originally city folk. Glikl bas Judah Leib was a merchant of Hamburg and Metz whose Yiddish autobiography blends folktales with anecdotes about her two marriages, her twelve children, and her business. Marie de L'Incarnation, widowed young, became a mystic visionary among the Ursuline sisters and cofounder of the first Christian school for Amerindian women in North America. Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname. The resulting triptych suggests the range of experience, self-consciousness, and expression possible in seventeenth-century Europe and its outposts. It also shows how persons removed from the centers of power and learning ventured in novel directions, modifying in their own way Europe's troubled and ambivalent relations with other "marginal" peoples." -Publisher.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92714
- Title
- Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
- Author
- Davis, Natalie Zemon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very fine in fine dj; top front of dj very faint wrinkle; top right corner of board slightly bumped; of interior clean and crisp
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 067495520X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674955202
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Women, Biography-- 17th century-- Jewish women, Germany, Women merchants, Women missionaries, Québec (Province), Protestant women, Suriname, Femmes, Biographies, 17e siècle. Juives, Allemagne, Commerçantes
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- Women;
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