‘Hope’s historian’ awarded the Holberg Prize
The historian Natalie Zemon Davis received the annual Holberg Memorial Prize. Canadian-American Davis is Professor of History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, as well as Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.
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“Davis is one of the most creative historians writing today. She is an intellectual who is not hostage to any particular school of thought. Her writing is subtle, complex and thoroughly documented. She shows how particular events can be narrated and analysed so as to reveal the deeper historical trends and underlying patterns of thought and behaviour,” said the prize committee when explaining their choice.
Davis is the author of books such as Society and Culture in Early Modern France, The Return of Martin Guerre and Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds.
