Davis discusses religious violence of 16th century in France. If popular violence against religious targets had a rationale, it was reduced to a socio-economic one such as the poor against the rich. ...At best, the religious indignation of crowds was misguided, and could not be read in its own terms. At worst, religious violence remained a supreme example of passionate disorder, an irrational lashing out against a terrible other. Her hope in 1972 was to explicate the religious violence of sixteenth-century French crowds in the decades leading up to Saint Bartholomew's day both in social terms and in cultural terms.
Cet essai analyse le rôle marginalisé des femmes dans les études historiennes des Annales de la première génération, en commençant par le travail de l’ethnographe et historienne juive autrichienne ...Lucie Varga et l’aide non rémunérée de Suzanne Dognon-Febvre et de Simone Vidal-Bloch. Il explore ensuite la formation supérieure et les carrières des femmes qui avaient un lien avec les Annales depuis leur fondation en 1929 jusqu’à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : les deux autrices qui y ont publié des articles – Varga et Thérèse Sclafert, historienne économique –, les autrices des ouvrages recensés ou des recensions – Yvonne Bézard, historienne économique, Marie-Louise Sjœstedt, linguiste, Germaine Rouillard, égyptologue – sans oublier Eugénie Droz, spécialiste de la Renaissance, éditrice d’un livre de Febvre. L’École pratique des hautes études se révèle pour ces femmes un cadre accueillant pour l’acquisition de formation supérieure, sans conduire à un poste universitaire. Elles suivent des trajectoires professionnelles de bibliothécaire, d’archiviste, d’éditrice ou d’enseignante pour les élèves de Sèvres. Le texte se conclut sur une réflexion sur le tribut intellectuel payé dans leur travail respectivement par Lucien Febvre et Franck Borkenau à leurs épouses, Varga et Dognon.
Passion for History Davis, Natalie Zemon; Crouzet, Denis; Wolfe, Michael
02/2010
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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, and
archival sleuthing to uncover the past. Davis brings to life a
dazzling cast of extraordinary people, revealing their thoughts,
emotions, and choices in the world in which they lived. Thanks to
Davis we can meet the impostor Arnaud du Tilh in her classic, The
Return of Martin Guerre, follow three remarkable lives in Women on
the Margins, and journey alongside a traveler and scholar in
Trickster Travels as he moves between the Muslim and Christian
worlds.
In these conversations with Denis Crouzet, professor of history
at the Sorbonne and well-known specialist on the French Wars of
Religion, Natalie Zemon Davis examines the practices of history and
controversies in historical method. Their discussion reveals how
Davis has always pursued the thrill and joy of discovery through
historical research. Her quest is influenced by growing up Jewish
in the Midwest as a descendant of emigrants from Eastern Europe.
She recounts how her own life as a citizen, a woman, and a scholar
compels her to ceaselessly examine and transcend received opinions
and certitudes. Davis reminds the reader of the broad possibilities
to be found by studying the lives of those who came before us, and
teaches us how to give voice to what was once silent.
In 1971 Natalie Zemon Davis published article entitled "The Reasons of Misrule: Youth Groups and Charivaris in Sixteenth-Century France." A study of the carnivalesque rituals of mockery through which ...communities displayed disapproval of moral and social infractions, it opened a revealing window onto the festive customs through which unmarried young men publicly humiliated and regulated the sexual and marital behavior of their neighbors. It also demonstrated the transmutation of these ludic rites into vehicles for social and political protest in urban environments. A year later, a piece on the English counterpart of charivari, commonly known as rough music or the skimmington ride, appeared in the pages of Annales.Written by Edward Thompson, the leading left-wing historian and founding member of this journal, this too examined the social function of the social past. Here, Walsham reflects on the history of rough music and charivari according to the letters between Davis and Thompson.
Davis reflects on the "turning point" of her life. The year was 1952, she had spent six months in France doing the first research for her Ph.D. thesis on "Protestantism and the Printing Workers of ...Lyon." She was trying to explore the Reformation from the vantage point of artisans, rather than just that of the theologians and the great princes. To find evidence about working people, many of whom are illiterate, one has to go to archives: to government lists and church records, to criminal prosecutions and marriage contracts. She planned to go back to France after she took her general exams. Not long after her return, two gentlemen from the US State Department arrived at their apartment to pick up her passport. She was devastated, heartsick, by the loss of her passport. She had counted on getting back to the archives in France not only to finish the research for her thesis, but for any future work she hoped to do on her new path of social history.
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