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The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
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The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga Paperback - 1997

by Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel

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From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons, bringing to life the customs, perceptions, and character of an age poised at the threshold of modernity. 26 halftones. 5 maps.

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Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Paperback Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. (8) 407 (1) pp, illus. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer: First Paperback Edition, 1997. Only the slightest external wear, else, Pristine Interior. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.25". Illustrated wrappers. "From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, the author reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, he 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.".
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  • Title The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
  • Author Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
  • Date 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 006240
  • ISBN 9780226473246 / 0226473244
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 5.88 x 1.05 in (23.06 x 14.94 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Dewey Decimal Code 949.4

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In 1563, in the final weeks of spring (F 401), Thomas Platter, an erst-while highland shepherd and vagabond who had gone on to become first a printer and later a boarding-school teacher and headmaster in Basel, decided, at the age of sixty-four, to leave Basel on a pilgrimage of reminiscence to the land of his birth: the German-speaking Upper Valais, situated downsteam from the Rhone glacier and upstream from Lausanne and Geneva, the heartland of francophone Switzerland.

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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.

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  • New York Times, 09/06/1998, Page 24

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