Natalie Zemon Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 192579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Zemon Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie Zemon |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS N Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 102 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 434 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 102 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Experiencing Exclusion
In 1952, while working on my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, two men from the Department of State came to our apartment and picked up my passport and that of my husband, Chandler Davis. In 1962, Chandler was finally allowed to immigrate to Canada with his family and take up a professorship at the University of Toronto. The ten years in between were packed with politics: Chandler’s refusal to answer questions before the House Un-American Acti…
On Cultivation (2002, 2023)
Half of this piece appeared under the title "Postscript on Cultivation: Editorial Note" in Common Knowledge 8, no. 2 (spring 2002), and half was written in 2023 by one of the coauthors as a posthumous tribute to the other. The historian Natalie Zemon Davis died on the fourteenth day of the latest war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. The relevance of "Postscript," which was written following the attacks by al-Qaeda in the United States on Septemb…
Mulheres e o mundo dos Annales
Este artigo examina a contribuição de Natalie Zemon Davis para a historiografia dos Annales, destacando seu foco na história social e cultural, particularmente na experiência das mulheres na França moderna. Davis utiliza uma abordagem interdisciplinar, combinando história social, cultural e de gênero com antropologia e literatura, para reconstruir as vidas e agências das mulheres em contextos históricos específicos. O artigo explora como seus tra…
Martin Luther, Martin Guerre, and Ways of Knowing
Responding to a quip by a fellow historian, who feared that Martin Guerre might become better known than Martin Luther, this guest column, by the author of The Return of Martin Guerre, affirms that they are part of the same universe of historical inquiry. Knowing about Martin Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther’s Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major r…
L'histoire comme un roman
Jewish History in a New Key
Jewish History in a New Key Natalie Zemon Davis Elliott horowitz first entered my life with his characteristic brilliance and brio at the 1980 meeting of the Association of Jewish Studies. Mark Cohen, Theodore Rabb, and I were presenting our Princeton course on the Jews in Early Modern Europe, into which we had introduced topics from the new social history within a comparative European perspective. A distinguished elder scholar from Jerusalem ros…
Physicians, Healers, and their Remedies in Colonial Suriname
Medical pluralism flourished in the 18th century in the Dutch colony of Suriname. White physicians and surgeons, trained in European medicine, existed along with Indigenous priest/healers and herbalists, slave priest/diviners, and healers of African origin, their diverse practices played out on the plantation itself. While decrying the "superstition" of slave healers, physicians began to take note of their plant remedies, such as the local bark u…
Lisa Jardine (1944-2015)
La quête de Michel de Certeau
Según algunos intelectuales, nuestra tarea es preservar el mundo, preferir la injusticia al desorden y la ética a la política. Es olvidar la excelencia de la ira sana
Calling the World to Come and Share Our Finds
Calling the World to Come and Share Our Finds: Three Memoirs and Some Highlights from the Founding of Renaissance and Reformation. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit
Regaining Jerusalem
Through the person of the ex-converso David Nassy, “Regaining Jerusalem” asks how seventeenth-century Portuguese Jews could seek their own religious liberty at the same time they were enslaving Africans in the plantation economies of the Caribbean and the Guyana coast. Living in Amsterdam by the 1630s, Nassy was part of the Jewish community in Dutch Brazil, and then in the 1660s led the Jewish settlement in Dutch Suriname. Nassy was moved in part…
Martin Luther, Martin Guerre, and Ways of Knowing
Responding to a quip by a fellow historian, who feared that Martin Guerre might become better known than Martin Luther, this guest column, by the author of The Return of Martin Guerre, affirms that they are part of the same universe of historical inquiry. Knowing about Martin Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther's Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major r…
The Allure of the Archives
Arlette Farge's Le Goût de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In Th…
Enthüllen und Verbergen
Cannibalism and Knowledge
no abstract
Judges, Masters, Diviners
“Two negroes hanged,” John Gabriel Stedman wrote in his Suriname journal for March 9, 1776, and then two days later, among his purchases of “soap, wine, tobacco, [and] rum” and his dinners with an elderly widow, he records, “A negro's foot cut off.” Stedman expanded on these events in the later Narrative of his years as a Dutch–Scottish soldier fighting against the Suriname Maroons: And now, this being the period of the [court] sessions, another …
Decentering History
This essay was first presented at the 2010 Ludwig Holberg Prize Symposium in Bergen, Norway, where I, as the prize recipient, was asked to describe my work and its import for our period of globalization. The essay first traces the interconnected processes of “decentering” history in Western historiography in the half century after World War II: the move to working people and “subaltern classes”; to women and gender; to communities defined by ethn…
Dezentrierende Geschichtsschreibung
Fuzzy Studies
In this introduction to Part 1 of the Common Knowledge symposium, "Fuzzy Studies," the journal's editor discusses four essays from the 1980s by Richard Rorty, in which Rorty chose to associate himself with various neopragmatists, Continental thinkers, and "left-wing Kuhnians" under the rubric of the "new fuzziness." The term had been introduced as an insult by a philosopher of science with positivist leanings, but Rorty took it up as an "endearin…
The Interpretation of Cultures
Creole languages and their uses
This article describes the sources for, and the origins and uses of, the creole languages in the Dutch colony of eighteenth-century Suriname – those created and spoken among slaves on the plantations, among the free black Maroons in the jungle villages and among the mixed population (freed/slave, Christian/Jewish, French/Dutch, etc.) of the town of Paramaribo. The rich sources derive especially from plantation managers and Moravian missionaries, …
The Politics of the Veil
Book Review| January 01 2009 The Politics of the Veil Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 208 pp. Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 96. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2008-046 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Natalie Zemon Dav…
Les silences des archives, le renom de l’histoire
Schweigende Archive und eine berühmte Geschichte. Die Geschichte des Martin Guerre wurde seit 1561, beginnend mit Jean de Coras und Guillaume Lesueur, immer wieder erzählt. Die verblüffende Ähnlichkeit der beiden Protagonisten, die Betrügereien und ein überraschendes Finale mit der Gegenüberstellung der beiden Martin Guerre machen die Intrige perfekt. Erinnerung steht gegen Erinnerung und die beiden Martin Guerre stehen vor gebannten Richtern und…
An Ottoman Tragedy
Book Review| January 01 2008 An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 271 pp. Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-039 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Wooden Eyes
Book Review| August 01 2007 Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance Carlo Ginzburg, Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance, trans. Martin Ryle and Kate Soper (London: Verso, 2002), 276 pp. Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 458–459. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-019 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation…
The Reasons of Misrule
THE REASONS OF MISRULE: YOUTH GROUPS AND CHARIVARIS IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Get access Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis University of Toulouse Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 1971, Pages 41-75, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/50.1.41 Published: 01 February 1971
The Rites of Violence
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee ... Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which he shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree
Decentering History
This essay was first presented at the 2010 Ludwig Holberg Prize Symposium in Bergen, Norway, where I, as the prize recipient, was asked to describe my work and its import for our period of globalization. The essay first traces the interconnected processes of “decentering” history in Western historiography in the half century after World War II: the move to working people and “subaltern classes”; to women and gender; to communities defined by ethn…
Women on the margins
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 Europ…
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
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 t…
Slaves on Screen
The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France
Judges, Masters, Diviners
“Two negroes hanged,” John Gabriel Stedman wrote in his Suriname journal for March 9, 1776, and then two days later, among his purchases of “soap, wine, tobacco, [and] rum” and his dinners with an elderly widow, he records, “A negro's foot cut off.” Stedman expanded on these events in the later Narrative of his years as a Dutch–Scottish soldier fighting against the Suriname Maroons: And now, this being the period of the [court] sessions, another …
"Women's History" in Transition
Any resemblance to persons living or dead
1988). “Any resemblance to persons living or dead”: film and the challenge of authenticity. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 269-283
Beyond the Market
Since he isn't able to sell his books,' Erasmus said of a fellow scholar in 1518, 'he goes about offering them as gifts to important people; he makes more that way than if he had sold them.' Erasmus's shrewd observation to his friend Tunstall has considerable currency among historians today, anxious as we are about the book market. But writing his Colloquies a few years later, the great humanist also envisaged other purposes for giving books. At …
The Possibilities of the past
Religion and Capitalism Once Again? Jewish Merchant Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Natalie Zemon Davis revisits the complex relationship between religion and capitalism through the lens of 17th-century Jewish merchant culture. Challenging Weberian paradigms that posit a stark opposition between religious ethics and capitalist pursuits, Davis explores how Jewish merchants navigated the tensions between religious observance and economic activity. She examines specific cases, including the career of Glückel of Hameln, to illustrat…
The Sacred and the Body Social in Sixteenth-Century Lyon
THE SACRED AND THE BODY SOCIAL IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LYON Get access Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 90, Issue 1, February 1981, Pages 40–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/90.1.40 Published: 01 February 1981
Women and the World of the Annales
Women and the World of the Annales Get access Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 121–137, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/33.1.121 Published: 01 March 1992
Women in the Crafts in Sixteenth-Century Lyon
Sixteenth-Century French Arithmetics on the Business Life
Les Conteurs de Montaillou
Il est facile de comprendre après coup l'extraordinaire succès qu'a connu le Montaillou d' Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie auprès des spécialistes comme du grand public. Alors que s'affirmait de plus en plus le rapprochement de l'histoire et de l'anthropologie, c'était un livre enfin qui mariait, avec art, les deux disciplines. Il y a bien des années, George C. Homans avait tenté déjà une approche de ce genre dans la vaste fresque de ses Englishvillagers…
Regaining Jerusalem
Through the person of the ex-converso David Nassy, “Regaining Jerusalem” asks how seventeenth-century Portuguese Jews could seek their own religious liberty at the same time they were enslaving Africans in the plantation economies of the Caribbean and the Guyana coast. Living in Amsterdam by the 1630s, Nassy was part of the Jewish community in Dutch Brazil, and then in the 1660s led the Jewish settlement in Dutch Suriname. Nassy was moved in part…
Movie or Monograph? A Historian/Filmmaker's Perspective
Using her experience as historical consultant for Le Retour de Martin Guerre, the author weighs the advantages and disadvantages of describing the past in the language of film and the language of professional prose. She concludes that both forms of communication should be used: historians should amplify their role as consultants or filmmakers through discussion and written debate
Physicians, Healers, and their Remedies in Colonial Suriname
Medical pluralism flourished in the 18th century in the Dutch colony of Suriname. White physicians and surgeons, trained in European medicine, existed along with Indigenous priest/healers and herbalists, slave priest/diviners, and healers of African origin, their diverse practices played out on the plantation itself. While decrying the "superstition" of slave healers, physicians began to take note of their plant remedies, such as the local bark u…
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. Jack Goody
A Trade Union in Sixteenth-Century France
Women on the Margins
Rabelais among the Censors (1940s, 1540s)
Research Article| October 01 1990 Rabelais among the Censors (1940s, 1540s) Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 32: 1–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928793 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sear…
Mathematicians in the Sixteenth-Century French Academies
Mathematical education was part of the encyclopedic program of Baïf's Academy and its ofishoot the Palace Academy, as Miss Frances Yates has aptly shown. But who were the teachers? She has speculated that the classical archeologist Louis de Montjusieu taught mathematics to the Duc de Joyeuse at the Academies rather than privately. An analysis of the interests and contacts of a number of mathematicians in the Paris area during the 1570's and 1580'…
Sixteenth-Century French Arithmetics on the Business Life
Protestantism and the Printing Workers of Lyons
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Renaissance Studies
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Publisher Guillaume Rouille, Businessman and Humanist
The Protestantism of Jacques Besson
A Trade Union in Sixteenth-Century France
Gregory Nazianzen in the Service of Humanist Social Reform
In 1539 Sébastien Gryphius, noted humanist printer of Lyon, published a French translation of Sermon Fourteen of Gregory Nazianzen, περί φιƛοπτωχίαs or De amore pauperum. It was entitled De la cure, et nourrissement des Pauvres, Sermon du Benoist sainct Gregoire Nazanzene, surnommé par excellence Theologien and it was the first of Gregory's works to be printed in French. Though the edition is included in Baudrier's Bibliographie lyonnaise, it has…
Rene Choppin on More’s Utopia
Strasbourg and the Reform; A Study in the Process of Change. Miriam Usher Chrisman
A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part Two
A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part One
A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part Three
Erasmus at Moscow
Of the four thousand historians gathered in Moscow in mid-August for the thirteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, only a few hundred of us were interested in Renaissance studies.In part we talked of Erasmus -a natural enough choice in 1970, though the Congress as a whole more often reflected the spirit of the Colloquy of Poissy than an Erasmian concord of learned and pure men.^Still, important professional con- tacts were establi…
The Portuguese Collection of Ralph Stanton
A Guest from Italy
The Jellinek Collection at the Alcoholic Research Foundations
Rare Books in the Trinity College Library
We begin with an Erasmus collection of about 260 volumes, many of them sixteenth-cent uiy, yet scrappy.We will improve it and build around it, concentrating on certain humanists and informers.Much will be in microfilm but there will also be some rare books.At the same time we are starting an ambitious reference collection for the period 1450-17DO.And in order to make the library "useful" as soon as possible, there will be smaller collections arou…
New plans for Renaissance and Reformation
A Checklist of French Political and Religious Pamphlets, 1560-1635, in the University of Toronto Library
Other Rare Books at Saint Michael’s
The Will Collection at the University Library
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
Unfortunately, every one of the latter qualities listed in Segar may be found, three hundred years earlier, in Lull.Apart from jargon about "social structure," clichés about the "gentry," and various historical commonplaces, the reader will find merely short summaries of a limited selection of primary sources, several of which have been published in such "not readily available" collections as the Early English Text Society.Despite Uhlig's work, t…
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Drake Collection
A recent issue of the bulletin (RR, 1,3) included a description of rare books on pediatrics and children in the Drake Collection at the Toronto Academy of Medicine.Since that time I have learned thrt the Collection includes a group of manuscripts and unbound printed materials.Most of the latter are French edicts on foundling hosnitals an child-welfare, a fevj of them dating before 1700, but especially numerous for the period of the French Revolut…
Th Century Continental Editions and Authors in the Forbes Collection
History (65 works) · Art (37 works) · Political science (37 works) · History (31 works) · Philosophy (30 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (22 works) · Art history (21 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (19 works)