The Resource Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives, Natalie Zemon Davis, (electronic resource)
Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives, Natalie Zemon Davis, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (360 pages), [28] p. of plates
- Contents
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- Arguing with God : Glikl Bas Judah Leib
- New worlds : Marie de l'Incarnation
- Metamorphoses : Maria Sibylla Merian
- Label
- Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives
- Title
- Women on the margins
- Title remainder
- three seventeenth-century lives
- Statement of responsibility
- Natalie Zemon Davis
- Subject
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- Glueckel, of Hameln, 1646-1724
- Jewish women -- Germany -- Biography
- Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, 1599-1672
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
- Biography -- 17th century
- Women -- Biography
- Women merchants -- Germany -- Biography
- Women missionaries -- Québec (Province) -- Biography
- Protestant women -- Suriname -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- NyNyACL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1928-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davis, Natalie Zemon
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- ACLS Humanities E-Book
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Glueckel
- Marie de l'Incarnation
- Merian, Maria Sibylla
- Biography
- Jewish women
- Protestant women
- Women merchants
- Women missionaries
- Women
- Label
- Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives, Natalie Zemon Davis, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-339) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Arguing with God : Glikl Bas Judah Leib -- New worlds : Marie de l'Incarnation -- Metamorphoses : Maria Sibylla Merian
- Control code
- MIU01000000000000012921456
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (360 pages), [28] p. of plates
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (dli)HEB01639
- (OCoLC)889235527
- Label
- Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives, Natalie Zemon Davis, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-339) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Arguing with God : Glikl Bas Judah Leib -- New worlds : Marie de l'Incarnation -- Metamorphoses : Maria Sibylla Merian
- Control code
- MIU01000000000000012921456
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (360 pages), [28] p. of plates
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (dli)HEB01639
- (OCoLC)889235527
Subject
- Glueckel, of Hameln, 1646-1724
- Jewish women -- Germany -- Biography
- Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, 1599-1672
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
- Biography -- 17th century
- Women -- Biography
- Women merchants -- Germany -- Biography
- Women missionaries -- Québec (Province) -- Biography
- Protestant women -- Suriname -- Biography
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