The Beggar and the Professor (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The 1400’s to the 1600’s
- Setting: Switzerland, Germany, and France
- Principal Characters: Thomas Platter, Felix Platter, Thomas Platter
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Europe or Europeans, Middle classes, Education or educators, Religion, Abandoned children, Doctors, Paris, Seventeenth century, Medicine, Sixteenth century, Germany or German people, Switzerland or Swiss people, Plague
- Locales: France, Germany, Switzerland
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s The Beggar and the Professor is the story of the Platters, a Swiss-German family who rose from their rural peasant origins to middle-class status during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, an era which spanned the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the beginning of the Age of Absolutism. It joins a genre of historical works, largely originating in France’s “Annales” school and sometimes referred to as microhistory, which developed out of the interest in social history and as a reaction against historical studies that focused only at the...
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