Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre The story was based in the early 1550's, a young peasant, Martin Guerre from Artigat had left his wife Bertrande and their son Sanxi and their inheritance to seek adventure in Spain as a mercenary. After leaving his family for nearly nine years a man claiming to be Martin returns to the village to claim his wife and land. Bertrande accepts the man as being her husband and they have another child together. Martin has a dispute with Pierre over the management of

The Return of Martin Guerre The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "The Return of Martin Guerre" by Natalie Zamon Davis. Specifically, it will discuss the life of the peasant during the Middle Ages. This book is a fascinating account of a true case that happened during the 16th century in France. The book is also an excellent example of how the peasants lived in the Middle Ages, from what they ate, to how they traveled and what their family lives were like.

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

with stories is that when they are written, people read them, and a person can interpret the story anyway they like. Two people reading the same story could interpret it differently and both of their interpretations would be right. The Return of Martin Guerre

today’s society, and once again, she has found the need to investigate Bertrande Guerre’s role within The Return of Martin Guerre. The only pieces of evidence that are reliable come from Jean de Coras, the main judge in the trial. However, Davis seems to have ignored his findings, and founded her own. For most of her points, there is no written evidence to

The narrative of Davis’s monograph and Vigne’s movie has similarities and differences as well. For example, the return of Martin Guerre after eight years to the court in the neck of time is basically the same in both works, but the starting point is different in terms of time and place. The book starts with a detailed background of Martin’s family, their journey from the Basque region to Artigat, and how they adopt the life of the new place by changing their names, changing their customs, and learning

detailed information regarding the shift of many people at the time from Catholicism to Protestantism, which is extremely important to the development of what is occurring. Form Davis’s prospective, Bertrande really knows the truth that imposter (fake Martin) is not her true husband, but for some reasons she conceals the truth. Perhaps, she has needs needed to be stratified by one means or another since the religious system of church regarded her as an abandoned wife rather than widow because there was

working the land and tending to livestock. Martin Guerre and Bertrande go through the exact same custom except Bertrande is not an everyday 16th century woman. She is independent and does not want to conform to customs she does not wholeheartedly agree with. So when Martin Guerre leaves, Bertrande sees his departure as an opportunity, especially

The role of Bertrande de Rols in the film “The Return of Martin Guerre” is a firm representation of the way in which women of this time subscribed to clear gender norms. She was a dutiful wife who stayed behind while her husband went off to war and to travel the world. She was willing to submit to him (or Arnaud, the man who ended up being an imposter of Martin) and settle down to have children upon his return. And when it came time to stand up him, she played her role in that process too (even though

Personal Betrayals and Historical Narratives: Analyzing Anger, Betrayal, and Agency in The Return of Martin Guerre The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis revisits a well-documented 16th-century legal case in France that is as much about identity theft as it is about the roles and rights of women in early modern Europe. This paper examines how Bertrande de Rols, the wife of Martin Guerre, exhibits agency throughout the trials of her husband’s impostor, reflecting both on her personal resolve