The Beggar and the Professor

by Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy; Goldhammer, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9780226473246
• ISBN10: 0226473244
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-06
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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. . . . It's a good story, told with a deft narrative touch."--Michael S. Kimmel, The Nation "Le Roy Ladurie is a master of the representative detail and uses the Platters' lives as a means to see a whole century 'through a glass, darkly'."--The Independent "Le Roy Ladurie has not only thoroughly sketched out the Platters' particular brand of gusto, he has also made it seem a defining characteristic of the sixteenth century."--The New Republic "All [of] the drama and pathos of a Disney film."--Emily Eakin, Lingua Franca

Table of Contents

Author's Note

Father and Son Thomas Felix Platter

Pilgrimage to the Valais

Childhoods and Undertakings (1499-1551)

The Platter Childhoods Thomas

The Platter Childhoods Felix

Platter Enterprises Thomas

Five Years in the Land of Oc (1552-1556)

Traveling to Montpellier

Living in Montpellier

The Year 1557

Going to Paris (Spring 1557)

The Spring of 1557 Anabasis

Summer and Fall: Thesis and Wedding

Boy or Girl?

Gredlin

Tomlin

Notes

Bibliography

Maps

Index

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