deeply saddened to announce that Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away her work on early modern European cultural history profoundly shaped the thinking of successive generations of scholars her warmth & generosity touched the lives of so many family, friends, students, colleagues, and comrades RIP

I’m so sorry to hear this. I was fortunate to meet once here at Brown - not only a brilliant and path-breaking scholar, but such a generous person. What a legacy washer leaves

Her books were a wonderful inspiration. Such a big loss! 🥺😢

Such a lovely person and surely one of the most important Anglophone historians of the last 60 years.

She was a model and an inspiration for us all. My thoughts go out to you & all of her former students today, Paul. Her legacy will shine on in her incredible scholarship & the work of the many fine historians she trained.

May she rest in peace.

As a sociologist who read historiography, she showed me what the Sociological Imagination could be.

I know you two were close. My condolences, and may her memory be a blessing.

Une grande historienne. Pour les francophones:

What an extraordinary legacy she leaves behind.

I’m so sorry to hear this, Paul. My condolences