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Carregando... A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisonerde Steven Bednarski
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Despite the title, A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner is low on melodrama, but very satisfying as an introduction to the study of microhistory. Steven Bednarski uses surviving records from a town in late medieval southern France to recreate to recreate the criminal trial of one Margardia de Portu, a sixteen-year-old who was accused of the murder of her husband. One of the pleasures of Bednarski's approach is his methodological transparency—he is open to the reader about the problems of source survival, the fact that the Latin is sometimes frustrating and opaque (when was the last time you saw a medievalist admit to wrestling with the language of the sources?), the painstaking and time-consuming demands of archival research, the fact that pre-existing interests shape how a historian frames their sources (a legal historian will approach this trial differently than would a historian of gender, or medicine, etc). I'll definitely be using this book in future courses. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a fourteenth-century French medieval woman accused of poisoning her husband to death. As Bednarski points out, the story is important not so much for what it tells us about Margarida but for how it illuminates a past world. Through the depositions and accusations made in court, the reader learns much about medieval women, female agency, kin networks, solidarity, sex, sickness, medicine, and law. Unlike most histories, this book does not remove the author from the analysis. Rather, it lays bare the working methods of the historian. Throughout his tale, Bednarski skillfully weaves a second narrative about how historians "do" history, highlighting the rewards and pitfalls of working with primary sources. The book opens with a chapter on microhistory as a genre and explains its strengths, weaknesses, and inherent risks. Next is a narrative of Margarida's criminal trial, followed by chapters on the civil suits and appeal and Margarida's eventual fate. The book features a rough copy of a court notary, a notorial act, and a sample of a criminal inquest record in the original Latin. A timeline of Margarida's life, list of characters, and two family trees provide useful information on key people in the story. A map of late medieval Manosque is also provided. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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