The Return of Martin Guerre

Natalie Zemon Davis

Martin Guerre

Arnault Du Tilh

Harvard University Press

<p>sing the North African diplomat Hasan al-Wazzan, known in Europe as Leo Africanus (c. 1488-after 1532), as its guide, this book offers a comparative journey through the worlds of Italian and Islamic theatre in the late medieval and early modern period. On both sides of the Mediterranean, a vigorous popular theatre was carried on in vernacular verse. Whereas in Europe by the fifteenth century literary poets had taken to drama as serious form of expression, in Islamic lands, poets preferred the high art of recitation for their panegyrics and poems of derision. Whereas in Italy religious theatre became the heart of confraternity life, in Islamic lands, religious themes remained the province of public story tellers and street preachers. What did al-Wazzan know of these varied theatrical expressions? What did he see during his diplomatic travels across North Africa and then in Italy, where he spent some years living as a teacher of Arabic, a writer, and a coerced Christian convert? What did he contribute to the new humanist interest in Aristotle’s Poetics and Averroes’s aesthetics? And what advice would he have given to his Jewish associate, Jacob Mantino of Bologna, who was working on his own translation of Averroes? Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy is thus a study in the delicate transmission of knowledge across borders, cultures, and religions. By Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History emeritus at Princeton University and is currently associated with the University of Toronto. Her many publications include The Return of Martin Guerre, Slaves on Film and Historical Vision, and Trickster A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. In 2010, the government of Norway awarded her the Holberg Prize for her work in the humanities.</p>

Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy: Theatre and Poetry Across the Mediterranean

Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies

<p>These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.</p>

Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays

History

Europe

Stanford University Press

Maria Sibylla Merian (German Edition): Künstlerin und Naturforscherin 1647-1717

Arts & Photography

SAM SEGAL

Roelof van Gelder

Heidrun Ludwig

Elisabeth Rücker

Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff

Werner Taegert

Kurt Wettengl

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz Verlag

Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (Hardcover) (Chinese Edition)

Guangxi Normal University Press

Il ritorno di Martin Guerre: Un caso di doppia identità nella Francia del Cinquecento

Officina Libraria

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