Artigat

between them. The story is about identity, culture and love in 16th century peasant society. Martin Guerre takes place in 16th century southern France, in a village called Artigat where the Guerre family is highly respected and is one of the leading families. Davis takes the story first of when the Basque Guerre’s arrive in Artigat and their quick assent in the village society. Davis explains that Martin’s father, Sanxi, arranged a political marriage with another high end family, the De Rols. The marriage

were feeling at the time. Finlay acknowledges Davis’ lack of evidence and sheds light on the idea that Davis knew something that others did not know at the time, “she has recognized a truth that apparently remained hidden from both the villagers of Artigat and the judges of Toulouse.” (Finlay 558). If what Davis thought Bertrande was feeling at the time was accurate or important it would have been brought up in the trial which was documented. Since it was not it is hard to interpret Davis’ information

The Return of Martin Guerre is a version of story which was presented in a book version and a film version. It tells about the story of a young man who has inhabited his own village, and the successive accounts of the invented emergency that returns to occur. Consequently, it provides the person who reads it with a set of happenings that describe life during 16th century in France. The happenings, while not completely accurate, enable the reader and viewer through a thoughtful and powerful story

peasants were concerned with maintaining their property within their family. Davis also contrasts this social norm of family property with explaining the social norms when dealing with property in other villages. Sanxi moved to new village called Artigat. It is stated, “What was really different from the Basque country was the way the land moved, both in inheritance and in sales. Here in the plain below the Pyrenees there was very little effort among the common people to hold the family property together”

wife Bertrande de Rols, whose lives were infiltrated by the imposter, Arnaud du Tilh. Taken place in Languedoc, France, the life of Martin Guerre a young peasant man, in which his abandonment of his flourishing farm and lifestyle in the village of Artigat, created the historical trial of impersonating lies, held to justify the innocence of one’s word against another. In the visual effects of the filmographic film The Return of Martin Guerre directed by Daniel Vigne; visualizes the historical story

In the book, The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis, she gives an inside look on the world of peasantry life in France during the sixteenth century. One thing that really stood out to me as a reader was, how it relates so much to modern day views and how the people in the book, back in the sixteenth century, seem so much like us here in the twenty-first century. Some of the views were the same as well as the reactions to different conflicts throughout the text. Davis focuses more on

Additionally, there is an absence of internal thought from Jean de Coras in the film. His decision to refrain from charging Bertrande, despite previous cases which suggested that she should be, is a pertinent part of the story and yet there is no mention of the struggle he faced in his head. At the end of the film, the narrator simply states, “The Counselor, Jean de Coras, impressed by this daring imposture, made a record of it. Twelve years later came the St. Bartholomew Massacre. For his Protestant

Marriage and Meaning Haley Wagner In 16th century France marriage is not seen as a bond between two people that love each other. It is instead seen as a man and wife being arranged together as one to assume duties of gender roles such as the woman having children and taking care of the house, fields, children, and husband. The man assumes the role of working and passing on family traditions such as working the land and tending to livestock. Martin Guerre and Bertrande go through the exact same custom

detailed description of the life of rural families during that time, and the journey of Martin’s family from the Basque region to the Artigat because of political and economic reasons. She goes more and demonstrates the social circumstances of the French peasantry in the sixteenth century. At any rate, Davis 's account of both the trial and village life in Artigat is more historically accurate than the movie. Davis brings the story to life as a historical achievement. That is why Davis writes her

they characterize relationships. The most common assumption for the life of peasant was an uneducation, monotonous lifestyle with little interesting factors. Fortunately for social historians, a strange occurrence happened in the small village of Artigat in the Pyrenees of Southwestern France and was perfectly documented and preserved by a judge of the court, Jean de Coras. While the court case and storyline was very detailed by Coras, there were many gaps in the characters motivations and reasonings