Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis

Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France

Natalie Zemon Davis

236 pages paperback 1987

4 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable--a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These stories took the form of letters of remissio...

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