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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Orest Ranum

Wonderments

Encounters

Fashionings

Memories

Women

Commitments

Hopes

Epilogue

Works by Natalie Zemon Davis

Works by Denis Crouzet

Index

About the Author

Natalie Zemon Davis is a social and cultural historian of early modern times. Her works have been translated into various foreign languages including French, Italian, German, and Japanese. In addition to her publications, she was the historical consultant for the film Le Ratour de Martin Guerre and the opera The House of Martin Guerre. Davis has taught at major universities such as the University of Toronto, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University, where she was Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Davis is also a former president of the American Historical Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and Chevalier de lOrdre des Palmes Academique. She is the recipient of various honorary degrees from Harvard University, the University of Toronto, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Cambridge University, Universite de Lyon, and Oxford University. Emerita from Princeton University, Davis is now Adjunct Professor of History and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently researching slavery and sociability in 18th-century Suriname. Denis Crouzet is professor of modern history at the Universite de Paris 4-Sorbonne, director of the Roland Mousnier Center, and director of the Research Institute on the Civilizations of the Modern West.

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“Natalie Zemon Davis, one of the world’s most creative and influential historians, has always believed in dialogue as a path to knowledge, and these fascinating conversations prove her right. They are must reading for anyone interested in history, the historian’s craft, the role of women in our society, or the lives of engaged intellectuals in the twentieth century.”—Lynn Hunt

“Davis’s work and her life are bound by her commitment to justice and humanity, and infused with hope. Her intense enjoyment of her work, so evident in these conversations, is infectious and inspiring.”—Kathleen Wellman Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

“This is a gracious book. While Davis has been at the forefront of many methodological innovations, and met and worked with many or most of the leading historians of the past fifty years, she does not grind axes. Crouzet's informed and thoughtful questions give readers a sense of how he thinks her work will be judged by future historians, but the interview as a whole focuses on allowing Davis to reflect on her own life and work.”—Sixteenth Century Journal

“A Passion for History is based on a series of 2003 conversations between Davis and fellow historian Denis Crouzet, first published in France the following year. It has now been published in a slightly amplified form in English as an elegant paperback that deserves to grace the shelves of both researchers and undergraduates interested in the practice of history. Although Davis has told some of these stories before, the comprehensive self-reflection and the wide-ranging, dynamic exchange between Davis and Crouzet set this volume apart.”—H-France Review

“It is clear that either through the “privilege” of collaboration or as a student of their work, Davis’s passion for history and approach to her craft has been influenced by the doyens and doyennes of the discipline and explains why her work has been much lauded, admired, and enjoyed.”—Parergon

“Several years ago, Davis sat down with the Sorbonne professor Denis Crouzet for a series of remarkably personal conversations about her life, her writings, and the writing of history in general, which a leading Paris publisher transcribed and published. Now, thanks to Michael Wolfe and Truman State University Press, it has appeared in a concise, readable translation. It is a valuable book.”—The New Republic

“A picture emerges of Davis as an original, contemplative and (exceptionally for the academic world) charitable woman whose success rests firmly on her love for the craft of history.”—Literary Review of Canada

“History is a passion that pulses strong for many, and both Natalie Zemon Davis and Denis Crouzet share this passion. A Passion for History is a dialogue between historian Davis and professor of history Denis Crouzet. Through their conversations, they discuss a wide variety of history, with a special focus on French Wars, the ancient tensions between the Christian and Muslim worlds, and more, A Passion for History is an endlessly informative and riveting read, a top pick for anyone with an interest in history as a whole.”—Midwest Book Review

“A forward by Orest Ranum sets the mood by stating that what the reader will find is not simply a Q&A session, but a genuine, lively dialogue between Crouzet and Davis.... I expect two types of readers to be seized by this gripping interview. On the one hand, it shall be read with great profit by those historians already familiar with Davis's work—critics and votaries alike. On the other, it will serve as a fine introduction to the work of this most innovative historian.”—European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire

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