| The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga Contributor(s): Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (Author), Goldhammer, Arthur (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226473244 ISBN-13: 9780226473246 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons as they crossed physical, political, and social boundaries in moving from peasantry to the professions of the new bourgeoisie. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions, and character of the sixteenth century -- an age poised at the thresh-old of modernity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: 949.4 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.88" W x 9.08" (1.34 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions, and character of an age poised at the threshold of modernity. Le Roy Ladurie paints a remarkably contemporary picture of life in the sixteenth century. . . . It's a good story, told with a deft narrative touch.--Michael S. Kimmel, The Nation Le Roy Ladurie is a master of the representative detail and uses the Platters' lives as a means to see a whole century 'through a glass, darkly'.--The Independent Le Roy Ladurie has not only thoroughly sketched out the Platters' particular brand of gusto, he has also made it seem a defining characteristic of the sixteenth century.--The New Republic All of] the drama and pathos of a Disney film.--Emily Eakin, Lingua Franca |
Contributor Bio(s): Goldhammer, Arthur: - Arthur Goldhammer is an award-winning translator who has translated books by Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff, and Jean Starobinski. |