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The Beggar and the Professor

A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga

The Beggar and the Professor( )
Author: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
Translator: Goldhammer, Arthur
ISBN:978-0-226-47323-9
Publication Date:Apr 1997
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $99.00
Book 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. . ....
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Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (Author)
Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

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