About this title: This book is an account of life and death in early modern France. It is an analysis of the crime stories which men and women told their judges in order to try to save themselves from the gallows. To receive a royal pardon for murder in 16th century France, a supplicant had to tell the king a story. Thousands of such stories are found in the French archives, providing evidence of the narrative skills and life conditions of peasants, artisans and the well-to-do. Many of the pardon tales are accounts of murder for sexual motives and thus reveal something of the sexual conventions of the time and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780804714129ISBN:0804714126
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780804714129ISBN:0804714126
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Grey cloth, gilt titles. First edition assumed (NAP). Book near fine with slight fading to edges of boards, ghostlike crease to ffep. DJ also near fine with slight shelfwear. Contains extensive notes. Scarce. 217 pp. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1987-12
ISBN-13:9780804714129ISBN:0804714126
Description: Very Good. Very light wear along the edge otherwise in like new condition. Tight binding and straight boards. No marks or creases throughout. A clean, tight, very good book. Excellent customer service is our first priority. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN-13:9780804717991ISBN:0804717990
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780804714129ISBN:0804714126
Description: 8vo. ix, [7], 217, [1] pp. Numerous plates. Gray cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on half-title. First edition of this pioneering effort to employ literary analysis to interpret the ways in which one received a royal pardon in 16th-century France--and how for certain kinds of homicide the supplicant had to tell the king a story. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780804714129ISBN:0804714126
Description: Very Good. Sl/rubbed and Worn Dj. 8vo. Pp 217this book byy onefo the most acclaimed historians of our time is a pioneering effort to use the tools of literary analysis to interpret archival texts. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1987-12
ISBN-13:9780804714129ISBN:0804714126
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