The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer
by Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
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About This Item
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 407 pp.: illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. Father and son: Thomas and Felix Platter -- Pilgrimage to the Valais -- 2. Childhoods and undertakings (1499-1551) -- The Platter childhoods: Thomas -- Felix -- Platter enterprises: Thomas -- 3. Five years in the Land of Oc (1552-1556) -- Traveling to Montpelier -- Living in Montpelier -- 4. The year 1557 -- Going to Paris (Spring 1557) -- The Spring of 1557: Anabasis -- Summer and fall: thesis and wedding -- 5. Boy or girl? -- Gredlin -- Tomlin. Subjects; Platter family. Platter, Thomas 1499-1582. Platter, Felix 1536-1614.
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
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- Title
- The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- Author
- Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226473236
- ISBN 13
- 9780226473239
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997
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