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“Being speculative is better than to not do it at all”: an interview with Natalie Zemon Davis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2015

Jessica Roitman  and
Karwan Fatah-Black
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Abstract

Jessica Roitman and Karwan Fatah-Black meet Natalie Zemon Davis outside the University Library in Leiden for lunch and an interview. Although Davis is eager to study a Sranan-German dictionary she retrieved from the library, the three of them sit down for an engaging conversation on the historian’s craft, its societal relevance and the future of early modern studies.

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Itinerario , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , April 2015 , pp. 3 - 15
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© 2015 Research Institute for History, Leiden University 

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