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Historian Highlight: Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023)
by Chris Campbell Running to a mere 127 pages, The Return of Martin Guerre was perhaps never intended to be a career-defining book.[1] For its author, the historian Natalie Zemon Davis, it was less a labour of profound historical scholarship than a personal work of unfinished business. Nevertheless, it bears close investigation as it was…
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‘Hither page and don my tiara’
Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles Tales of Puritan… well… puritanism, are usually a popular topic of conversation this time of year (especially among certain subsets of the population). Christmas in sixteenth and seventeenth century England was a rather sparse affair with fewer and fewer ‘lords of misrule’ and (ostensibly) more and more ‘cleaning-the-feet-of-the-poor-ers’.…
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Market Day
At the turn of the hour when the days start lengthening again, the Christmas Markets come! Of all German contributions to Winterval festivities this one is perhaps the most unusual. While Tannenbaums and advent wreathes and a host of Christmas curios have arguably rather ancient origins, the mid-winter market is a decidedly more recent affair.…
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Emma Olson – Historian Highlight
Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. Earlier this month, Chris Campbell met up with second-year History PhD student Emma Olson to discuss soundscapes, religious violence and the challenges of researching medieval history. @EmmaOlson | @ChrisCampbell Emma, tell me about your current…
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