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Author Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-2023, author

Title Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives / Natalie Zemon Davis
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1997, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (360 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents Arguing with God : Glikl Bas Judah Leib -- New worlds : Marie de l'Incarnation -- Metamorphoses : Maria Sibylla Merian
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-339) and index
Subject 880-01 Glueckel, of Hameln, 1646-1724.
SUBJECT 880-01/(Q Marie de l'Incarnation, me⁺ђre, 1599-1672
Subject Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, Saint, 1599-1672
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
SUBJECT Glueckel, of Hameln, 1646-1724 fast
Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, Saint, 1599-1672 fast
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 fast
Subject 880-02 Women -- Biography.
880-02/(Q Women missionaries -- Que⁺ѓbec (Province) -- Biography
Biography -- 17th century.
Jewish women -- Germany -- Biography
Women merchants -- Germany -- Biography
Women missionaries -- Québec (Province) -- Biography
Protestant women -- Suriname -- Biography
Biography
Jewish women
Protestant women
Women
Women merchants
Women missionaries
Germany
Québec
Suriname
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674955219
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9780674955202