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According to Wikipedia, Natalie Zemon Davis, was an American-Canadian historian of the early modern period. She was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. Her work originally focused on France, but it later broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. For example, her book, Trickster Travels , views Italy, Spain, Morocco and other parts of North Africa and West Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. Davis' books have all been translated into other languages: twenty-two for The Return of Martin Guerre. She was the second female president of the American Historical Association .

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Society and culture in early modern France (1974) (511)
The Return of Martin Guerre (1983) (361)
Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (1988) (269)
THE RITES OF VIOLENCE: RELIGIOUS RIOT IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE (1973) (208)
THE REASONS OF MISRULE: YOUTH GROUPS AND CHARIVARIS IN SIXTEENTH–CENTURY FRANCE (1971) (200)
"Women's History" in Transition: The European Case (1976) (160)
The Allure of the Archives (2013) (147)
The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (2000) (146)
Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays (1975) (125)
Women on the margins: three seventeenth-century lives (1997) (89)
1. DECENTERING HISTORY: LOCAL STORIES AND CULTURAL CROSSINGS IN A GLOBAL WORLD (2011) (89)
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds (2006) (88)
THE SACRED AND THE BODY SOCIAL IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LYON (1981) (87)
Beyond the Market: Books as Gifts in Sixteenth-Century France (The Prothero Lecture) (1983) (84)
Women on Top (2008) (65)
Women in the Crafts in Sixteenth-Century Lyon (1982) (64)
On the Lame (1988) (64)
Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves’ Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname (2011) (57)
Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (2000) (47)
“Any resemblance to persons living or dead”: film and the challenge of authenticity (1988) (40)
History's Two Bodies (1988) (38)
Sixteenth-Century French Arithmetics on the Business Life (1960) (38)
Culture and identity in early modern Europe (1500-1800): essays in honor of Natalie Zemon Davis (1995) (34)
Changing identities in early modern France (1999) (26)
Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts: Presents and Politics at the End of the Middle Ages (2002) (23)
The Possibilities of the past (1981) (19)
Religion and Capitalism Once Again? Jewish Merchant Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1997) (15)
Holbein's Pictures of Death and the Reformation at Lyons (1956) (15)
Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis (1976) (15)
A Trade Union in Sixteenth-Century France (1966) (15)
Creole languages and their uses: the example of colonial Suriname (2009) (14)
Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes (1993) (14)
Women and the World of the Annales (1992) (13)
Aspects de la propagande religieuse (1958) (12)
Toward Mixtures and Margins (1992) (11)
Rabelais among the Censors (1940s, 1540s) (1990) (11)
Movie or Monograph? A Historian/Filmmaker's Perspective (2003) (11)
Women on the margins (1995) (10)
A History of Women in the West. Vol. III: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes (1994) (8)
What is Women’s History … ? (1988) (8)
Regaining Jerusalem: Eschatology and Slavery in Jewish Colonization in Seventeeth-Century Suriname (2015) (7)
Peletier and Beza Part Company (1964) (7)
Mathematicians in the Sixteenth-Century French Academies: Some Further Evidence (1958) (6)
Physicians, Healers, and their Remedies in Colonial Suriname (2016) (6)
Strikes and Salvation at Lyons (1965) (6)
A History of Women in the West. Volume 3, Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes. (1994) (6)
The Historian and Literary Uses (2003) (6)
Fame and Secrecy: Leon Modena's Life as an Early Modern Autobiography (1988) (5)
What is Universal about History (2010) (4)
Take it off. (2022) (4)
Iroquois Women, European Women (2019) (3)
Art and Society in the Gifts of Montaigne (1985) (3)
Time and Social Structure : a Yugoslav Case Study (2017) (3)
Fiction in the Archives (1990) (3)
The Renaissance Notion of Women: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life.Ian Maclean (1981) (3)
Visions of history : interviews with E.P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Sheila Rowbotham, Linda Gordon, Natalie Zemon Davis, William Appleman Williams, Staughton Lynd, David Montgomery, Herbert Gutman, Vincent Harding, John Womack, C.L.R. James, Moshe Lewin (1985) (2)
Rene Choppin on More’s Utopia (1968) (2)
Women ' s History , in Transition , " (2008) (2)
Confronting the Turkish Dogs:Rabelais and His Critics (1996) (2)
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. JACK GOODY (1985) (2)
Being Grateful to Edward Said (2005) (2)
Remembering Clifford Geertz (2008) (2)
Censorship, Silence and Resistance: The "Annales" during the German Occupation of France (2016) (2)
Writing ‘The Rites of Violence’ and Afterward (2012) (1)
Protestantism and the Printing Workers of Lyons: A Study in the Problem of Religion and Social Class during the Reformation. (1960) (1)
The Law as Storyteller (1984) (1)
Publisher Guillaume Rouille, Businessman and Humanist (1966) (1)
Missed Connections: Religion and Regime (1971) (1)
Rare Books in the Trinity College Library (1964) (1)
Criminal Defense as Narrative: Storytelling and Royal Pardons in Renaissance France (1988) (1)
The Allure of the Archives; A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet (2010) (1)
Cannibalism and Knowledge (2012) (1)
The Protestantism of Jacques Besson (1966) (1)
Polarities, Hybridities: What Strategies for Decentring? (2001) (1)
Revealing, Concealing: Ways of Recounting the Self in Early Modern Times (2011) (1)
Lisa Jardine (1944–2015) (2016) (1)
Peace and Mind: Seriatim Symposium on Dispute, Conflict, and Enmity Part 2: Caveats and Consolations (2002) (0)
The Will Collection at the University Library (1969) (0)
Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves' Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname—Corrigendum (2012) (0)
CSS volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1991) (0)
Turning Points (2014) (0)
Yom Kippur in Moscow, 5750 (1991) (0)
Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift (review) (2007) (0)
Gregory Nazianzen in the Service of Humanist Social Reform (1967) (0)
New plans for Renaissance and Reformation (1969) (0)
A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part Two: Section III (Law Common) A. The Common Law of England. (1968) (0)
Introduction: art and the city (2008) (0)
A Checklist of French Political and Religious Pamphlets, 1560-1635, in the University of Toronto Library (1969) (0)
New Monarchs and Prudent Priests (1971) (0)
Heroes, Heroines, Protagonists (2001) (0)
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Princeton University (1989) (0)
XVIe-XVIIIe siècles (1991) (0)
Geneva and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564-1572.Robert M. Kingdon (1969) (0)
THE ARMADA PORTRAIT: COSTUME AND THE BODY POLITIC (2014) (0)
2.2 'IROQUOIS WOMEN, EUROPEAN WOMEN' (2003) (0)
The Portuguese Collection of Ralph Stanton (1966) (0)
‘Leo Africanus’ and His Worlds of Translation (2014) (0)
16th Century Continental Editions and Authors in the Forbes Collection (1968) (0)
Renaissance Studies by Wallace K. Ferguson (review) (2016) (0)
Erasmus at Moscow (1969) (0)
Listening to the Languages of the People (2022) (0)
Turning Points (2014) (0)
From prodigious to heinous (1997) (0)
The People of the Past Come First (2020) (0)
Geneva, Refuge and Migrations (16th-17th Centuries). Foreword (2015) (0)
Martin Luther, Martin Guerre, and Ways of Knowing (2013) (0)
The T. G. H. Drake Collection at the Toronto Academy of Medicine (1969) (0)
Dealing with Strangeness: Language and Information Flow in an 18th Century Slave Society (2013) (0)
Recent Acquisitions at the Newberry Library (1969) (0)
Book Review:Strasbourg and the Reform; A Study in the Process of Change Miriam Usher Chrisman (1968) (0)
Postscript: On Cultivation: Editorial Note (2002) (0)
A Debate behind the Scenes (2006) (0)
Martin Luther, Martin Guerre, and Ways of Knowing (2019) (0)
CSS Volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1994) (0)
Heterodoxies: Construction of identities and otherness in medieval and early Modern Europe (2018) (0)
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Drake Collection (1966) (0)
Renaissance Studies (1964) (0)
Jewish History in a New Key (2018) (0)
A Guest from Italy (1969) (0)
Rouen during the Wars of Religion.Philip BenedictThe Making of a State: Württemberg, 1593-1793.James Allen Vann (1985) (0)
The Jellinek Collection at the Alcoholic Research Foundations (1965) (0)
Perspectives on Passion (2016) (0)
Women, Jewish History, European History (2019) (0)
Braided histories: Jews, Africans and slavery (2001) (0)
The History of women and gender (1970-2003): achievements and the challenges ahead (2002) (0)
The Political Ideas of Pierre Viret.Robert Dean Linder (1966) (0)
Lyons 1473-1503: The Beginnings of Cosmopolitanism.James B. Wadsworth (1963) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
Other Rare Books at Saint Michael’s (1965) (0)
A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part One: Introduction, with Sections I (Roman Civil Law) and II (Canon Law) (1967) (0)
Temptation in the Archives (1987) (0)
A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part Three: Section III (National and Customary Law, or Law Common) cont’d., and Section IV (Miscellaneous and Comparative Law) (1968) (0)
"Braided Histories: Jews, Africans and Philosophies in 18th-Century Suriname" (2002) (0)
Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance (review) (2007) (0)
The Politics of the Veil (review) (2009) (0)
Prometheus Revisited: The Quest for Global Justice in the Twenty-first Century (review) (2006) (0)
"Calling the World to Come and Share Our Finds”: Three Memoirs and Some Highlights from the Founding of Renaissance and Reformation (2015) (0)
TORONTO RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION COLLOQUIUM (2018) (0)
An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (review) (2008) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1992) (0)
ARTICLES. The History of women and gender (1970-2003): achievements and the challenges ahead (2002) (0)
Tales of Transformation (1996) (0)

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The Return of Martin Guerre

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