Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis ( born November 8, 1928 in Detroit ) is a Canadian-American historian and cultural scientist. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the early modern period, in particular France.

Nathalie Zemon Davis attended Kingswood School ( today: Cranbrook Kingswood School) in Bloomfield Hills, which is part of the Cranbrook Educational Community. She received her PhD in 1959 at the University of Michigan and taught among other things Providence, Toronto, Berkeley, Paris, Princeton and Oxford. She is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, has lived since 1996 as a writer in Toronto and taught again at the university.

Nathalie Zemon Davis is one of the most important representatives of the New Cultural History. Your studies on Humanism and the Reformation, Gender Studies and Judaism are taking a leading role in interdisciplinary cultural studies.

Prizes and awards

  • 2000 Arnold Toynbee Prize
  • 2001 Aby M. Warburg Prize
  • 2010 International Holberg Memorial Prize
  • 2012 National Humanities Medal

Works

  • The true story of the return of Martin Guerre. ( Le retour du Martin Guerre. ) Piper, Munich, 1984, ISBN 3-492-02858-6.
  • Women and Society at the beginning of modern times. Studies on family, religion, and the mutability of the social body. Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-8031-3531-1.
  • Humanism, fools rule and the rites of violence. (Society and Culture in Early Modern France. ) S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-24369-6.
  • Three women's lives. ( Women on the Margins. ) Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8031-3584-2.
  • The bestowing society. For the culture of the French Renaissance. ( The Gift in Sixteenth - Century France. ) CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48721-1.
  • Metamorphoses. The Life of Maria Sibylla Merian. ( Women on the Margins. ) Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-2484-0.
  • Right With God. The life of Glikl bas Judah body, called Glückel of Hamelin. ( Women on the Margins. ) Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-2485-9.
  • Leo Africanus. A traveler between Orient and Occident. ( Trickster Travels. ) Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8031-3627-5.
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