The return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis.
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Du Tilh, Arnault, -- d. 1560.,; Guerre, Martin, -- fl. 1539-1560.; Trials (Impostors and imposture) -- France.; Impostors and imposture -- France.
Work titles: Retour de Martin Guerre.
Description: Recounts the history of French imposter Arnaud du Tilh and his denouncement in court by Martin Guerre, whose identity, property, and wife du Tilh tried to claim. Reveals new information about sixteenth-century peasant life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-131) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Hendaye to Artigat; title: The discounted peasant; title: The Honor of Bertrande de Rols; title: The masks of Arnaud du Tilh; title: The invented marriage; title: Quarrels; title: The trial at Rieux; title: The trial at Toulouse; title: The return of Martin Guerre; title: The storyteller; title: Histoire prodigieuse, histoire tragique; title: Of the lame.