Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga

Contributor(s): Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (Author), Goldhammer, Arthur (Translator)

ISBN: 9780226473246

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Pub Date: June 6, 1998

Dewey: 949.4

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.05" H x 9.08" L x 5.88" W ( 1.34 lbs) 416 pages

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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, 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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Arthur Goldhammer is an award-winning translator who has translated books by Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff, and Jean Starobinski.