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

The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga Paperback - 1998

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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  • Title The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
  • Author Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Condition Used - Very 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 # GOR001788314
  • 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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