The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family SagaUniversity of Chicago Press, 1997/04/11 - 407 ページ In 1499, high in the remote and bitterly impoverished mountains of the Valais, Thomas Platter was born and quickly abandoned, left to make his way among the crags as a herder of goats and sheep. At the age of ten, mustering the ferocity of will that would serve him throughout his life, Thomas walked barefoot and alone out of the hills and into the glorious turbulence of the sixteenth century. For nearly ten years, he wandered the breadth of Western Europe, throwing in his lot with nomadic gangs of beggars and thieves, scraping and fighting for food and survival, until a chance encounter sparked a stunning humanist conversion, propelling him from illiterate pauper to esteemed professor, printer, and, ultimately, patriarch. From a wealth of vividly autobiographical writings - diaries, travel journals, memoirs - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons as well. Together their rich careers spanned the entire sixteenth century, and their far-flung and often perilous journeys carried them through countrysides and kingdoms, into cathedrals and plague houses. These personal narratives, among the first to have authors of rural or peasant origin, constitute a rare and intimate portrait of the emergence of early modern European society. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions, and character - the very dialogue - of an age poised at the threshold of modernity. |
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Pilgrimage to the Valais | 3 |
Childhoods and Undertakings 14991551 | 13 |
The Platter Childhoods Thomas | 15 |
The Platter Childhoods FeHx | 65 |
Platter Enterprises Thomas | 119 |
Five Years in the Land of Oc 15521556 | 145 |
Traveling to Montpellier | 147 |
Living in Montpellier | 179 |
The Spring of 1557 Anabasis | 261 |
Summer and Fall Thesis and Wedding | 299 |
Boy or Girl? | 327 |
Gredlin | 329 |
Tomilin | 335 |
NOTES | 345 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 367 |
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Alsace Anna Avignon Basel became Bibliothèque nationale bishop boarders Bordeaux Bourges brother Catalan Catholic Charles child CHILDHOODS AND UNDERTAKINGS church city's course daughter death despite Dijon doctor Epiphanius father Felix Platter Felix's visit Franche-Comté French German girl Grächen Gredlin gulden Henri Henri II Histoire Höchstetter horse Huguenot Jeckelmann Johannes journey LAND OF OC Languedoc later Latin lived Loire Louis Lyons Madlen Margret Marrano marriage married medicine Montbéliard Montpellier Myconius night Niklaus noble once Oporinus Orléans Paris parlement peasant physician plague PLATTER CHILDHOODS played printer printing professor Protestant region religious Renaissance royal Saint Saint-Denis Sélestat siècle sixteenth century SPRING OF 1557 Strasbourg Swiss Switzerland teacher Thomas Jr Thomas Platter Thomas's tion took Toulouse Tours town travelers University University of Basel Ursula Valais Valaisian Visp walls wife wine woman young Zurich Zwingli