Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives
(Book)

"Six printing, 2003"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-339) and index.

"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 l{u2019}Incarnation, 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 women{u2014}one Jewish, one Catholic, one Protestant{u2014}left behind memoirs and writings that make for a spellbinding tale and that, in Davis{u2019} deft narrative, tell us more about the life of early modern Europe than many an official history."--Publisher's website.