HISTORY 171 Writing Assignment Fall 2019 The Return of Martin Guerre Due: November 22 at the beginning of class Using ?only ?Natalie Zemon Davis, ?The Return of Martin Guerre ?(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984) and information from class discussions, write a cogent essay on ?one ?of the following prompts. PROMPT 1:? Analyze peasant life in sixteenth-century France. What were the general physical and economic circumstances of these people? How linguistically and ethnically diverse was the population? What sorts of gender relations defined village life? What sorts of social relations defined village life? How important was religion and belief in the supernatural to these communities?
