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Natalie Zemon Davis was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928 and after high school years at Kingswood School Cranbrook, attended Smith College for her BA (1949). There she did her Senior thesis on the rationalist Renaissance philosopher Pietro Pomponazzi, was active in ‘progressive’ student politics, wrote college songs, and met and married her husband, the mathematician Chandler Davis. She received her MA in history from Radcliffe College, Harvard in 1950, and then followed her husband to the University of Michigan, from which she received her PhD in 1959.
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Snowman, D. (2007). Natalie Zemon Davis. In: Historians. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-59997-0_17
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