The Voices of Nimes
Book description
Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought. Criminal courts and magistrates kept few…
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1 author picked The Voices of Nimes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In historiography, the focus is usually on men, so women are pushed to the sidelines.
In this book, Professor Lipscomb beautifully recreates women's daily life in the sixteenth-century French town of Nîmes. Reading their words retrieved from the archives allows these women's voices, left out of history books, to be heard again.
From Sylvia's list on by Tudor historians.
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