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Becoming Bourgeois

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Heretics were still being burned alive and the plague ravaged Europe, yet the early years of the 16th century have a good case for being thought of as the first decades of the modern world. Lisa Jardinetellsthe story of one 16th-century family- the Platters of Switzerland - who within two generations moved from being illiterate goatherds to doctors of princes. With historians Emmanuel Le RoyLadurie and Natalie Zemon Davis. Producer Tim Dee

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Lisa Jardinetellsthe
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Emmanuel Le Royladurie
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Natalie Zemon
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Tim Dee
Source: Radio Times

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