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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 - 1998

by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie; Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)

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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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University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. paperback This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
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  • Title The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date June 6, 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # S-02-4007
  • 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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First line

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.

From the rear cover

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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