Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy: Theatre and Poetry Across the Mediterranean

Natalie Zemon Davis

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These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France.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

The Return of Martin Guerre

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

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

Officina Libraria

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