A ESCRITA DA HISTÓRIA DE NATALIE DAVIS NO LIVRO NAS MARGENS

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze some aspects of Natalie Zemon Davis’ history writing contained in the book Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. In this oeuvre, the historian deals with some questions approached by the present discussions about historiography production, such as agency, microhistory, as well as the role of narrative on the historical knowledge’s production. Through a work with the text architecture, as well as an analysis of the author reflections about her theoretical and methodological paths, this essay aims to show how Davis tries to put aside interpretations which approach her work with the historical relativism (found on certain views of the post-modernism critic) and the following deflation of the concept of real caused by this posture.