The Beggar and the Professor - A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - Hardback Bog - The University of Chicago Press - 1997 -
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Description
From autobiographical writings Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the life of Thomas Platter and of his sons. Their careers spanned the entire 16th century, experiencing the close of the Renaissance, the sharp upheaval of the Reformation and the advent of a new bougeoisie.
