Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. Davis 9780674955219**

Harvard University Press

Women on the MarginsThree Seventeenth-Century Lives\nAuthor(s): Natalie Zemon Davis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: The Belknap Press\nISBN-13: 9780674955219, 978-0674955219\nSynopsis\nAs she did in The Return of Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de lIncarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. Rather, they were living on the margins in seventeenth-century Europe, North America, and South America. Yet these womenone Jewish, one Catholic, one Protestantleft behind memoirs and writings that make for a spellbinding tale and that, in Davis deft narrative, tell us more about the life of early modern Europe than many an official history.\n\nAll these women were origi.