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Bezig met laden... Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Livesdoor Natalie Zemon Davis
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Women on the Margins examines the lives of three seventeenth-century European women: Glikl bas Judah Leib, a Jewish wife and trader; Marie de l'Incarnation, a Catholic who left behind her community and her child in France in order to help found a convent in Canada; and Maria Sibylla Merian, a Protestant artist-naturalist who travelled to Suriname to study and paint insect life. Davis pursues the kind of microhistories here which will be familiar to those who have read her The Return of Martin Guerre. I found all three lives fascinating, but thought that the case for examining them in tandem could have been made more strongly. The final analytical chapter is very brief, I found Davis' definition of "living on the margins" to be overly broad, and the introduction—in which Davis conducts an imaginary conversation with all three women in a place called 'Thoughtland'—I found to be more embarrassingly twee than thought provoking. More sustained comparative analysis would have strengthened this book immensely; while I found each chapter interesting on its own, Women on the Margins is less than the sum of its parts. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)920.72History and Geography Biography, genealogy, insignia Biography By Gender WomenLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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