Natalie Zemon Davis
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An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the...
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La de Martin Guerre es la historia de una impostura. En el año 1540 un rico campesino del Languedoc abandonó a su mujer, su hijo y sus propiedades, y durante años no se supo más de él. Tiempo después volvió -o así lo creyó todo el mundo-, integrándose plenamente en su vida anterior. Sin embargo, tras varios años de apacible convivencia matrimonial, la mujer alegó que había sido engañada por un impostor y denunció a su supuesto marido...
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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden...