Preface As a historian of the religious wars that caused such violence and disorder in sixteenth-century France, I was drawn to work with criminal archives by the

Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓

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#EdiciónImpresa 🗞| A dos años del fallecimiento de la historiadora Natalie Zemon Davis (Nov.1928-Oct.2023).

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#Historiadora #Memoria #NatalieZemonDavis

Screengrab from the New York Times Flashback history quiz. Text: "The naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian draws the life cycle of butterflies. Until this era, many people thought insects were spontaneously generated." On the left, one of Merian's drawings of butterflies.

Maria Sybilla Merian is in the @nytimes.com #Flashback quiz today. I first learned about Merian when I was a teaching assistant for #NatalieZemonDavis (NZD) in the early '80s. We should remind ourselves regularly how much of ♀️'s history has only been retrieved in the past few decades.

Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94 She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.

RIP #NatalieZemonDavis a great loss 🥲

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