Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales & Their Tellers in Sixteenth-century France (Harry Camp Lecture) by Natalie Zemon Davis

Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales & Their Tellers in Sixteenth-century France (Harry Camp Lecture)

Natalie Zemon Davis

217 pages first pub 1987 (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 remission,...

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