El hombre conocido con el nombre de León el Africano, autor de la primera geografía de África, nació como al-Hasan al-Wazzan en una familia musulmana que en 1492 dejó Granada por Marruecos. Natalie Zemon Davis describe...
Frente a quienes defienden una concepción clásica de la historia, en virtud de la cual el historiador sería un experto que se situaría fuera de su objeto, toda la obra y la vida misma de Natalie Zemon Davis nos muestran otro...
Un pagès imaginatiu, Arnau del Tilh, gairebé havia aconseguit persuadir els jutges del parlament de Tolosa de Llenguadoc que ell era Martin Guèrra. I el que sembla més difícil encara, havia aconseguit enganyar la seua...
This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The pathbreaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society and culture. She rescues men and women from oblivion using her unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence,...
Offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and is a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summerâs day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the...