The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; translate...
The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; translate...
The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Date
1997.
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N949.43203/1
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English
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407 p. : ill., ports., 5 maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Illinois
Date Published
1997.
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From a wealth of vividly autobiographical writings -diaries, travel journals, memoirs - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons as well. Together their rich careers spanned the entire sixteenth century, and their far-flung and often perilous journeys carried them through countrysides a...
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The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
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Translation of: Le mendiant et le professeur (T. 1 of Le siècle des Platter, 1499-1628).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-385 and index.
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N949.43203/1
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0226473236 :
9780226473239 (alk. paper)
0226473236 (alk. paper)
9780226473239
0226473236
9780226473239 :
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949.432030922
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991004770579702626
