The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis

Return of Martin Guerre of Natalie Davis to Natalie Davis's return to Martin Guerre returned a glimpse of the world of French farmers' life in the 16th century. It also enables the modern audience the opportunity to check and compare their own identity and self-problems. What makes the story very interesting for modern audiences and readers is the relationship between stories and people and our own era. This story is about the history of everyday people, it is not a usual theme of royalty and the general public, history.

As Natalie Davis returns to Martin Guerre, you can see the story of the young man who abandoned his village and a description of the imaginary alternative that follows. Therefore, it presents readers a series of events depicting the living of France in the 16th century. These events are not completely accurate, but lead the reader through a serious and powerful story about life, love, and more importantly religion. For the first time after seeing Daniel Vigne's film "Le Retour De Martin Guerre" (1982), I can feel how Martin Guerre's story differs between print media and film media.

Martin Guerre of Natalie Zemon Davis succeeded in using the micro-historical approach to thoroughly examine the story of this amazing marriage fraud. The micro history of Davis is based mainly on two stories of the trial. They became widespread after the end - one was judge Jean de Coras and the other was led by legal scholar Guillaume Le Sueur. In addition, Zemon Davis rebuilt Martin, Arnaud, and most important Bertrande's wishes and agents, using courts and financial records. But it is not only that Davis's statement reveals the character of these characters, but also that the experiences of the three villagers "prove that it is not outside the neighbor's more general experience" . Multistage, cheaters' production is related to a more general way to create personal identification information "(Zemon Davis, VII)

If Davis made a fictitious story, she can not create more realistic and eccentric characters like Martin Gray's return. We introduced (in this order) a formidable Beorande de Rols and suspect 's Arnaud du Tilh' s Martin Guerre. Martin Guerre grew up with a girl's family and moved to Artigat by accident at a young age. Davis explained Martin as a person who has never really brought happiness to his life. He was arranged to marry Bertrande de Rols, and after years of incompetence they finally made children. Martin Guerre then suddenly left. The only reason was that he stole part of his father's food (almost unacceptable crime of the Basque custom); this may have been made by Guerre as an excuse for his sudden departure. When he suddenly returned to Attigart and finished the case, he accused Bertrand of his abandoned wife. In some ways, she is very energetic