Andrea Frisch
Scholar and author specializing in early modern French literature and culture, noted for work on witnessing, testimony, and the French Wars of Religion; serves as a professor of French and contributes to academic publications in the field.
Books
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1. The Invention Of The Eyewitness
Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France
An intellectual history of how, in early modern France, the figure of the eyewitness became a privileged source of truth across legal, historical, and literary arenas. Drawing on accounts produced amid the Wars of Religion, it shows how testimonial practices, print circulation, and juridical reforms reshaped standards of credibility, and how narratives of violence and trauma forged new expectations for first-person authority. It maps the tensions between personal presence and institutional verification, revealing the political stakes of who gets to speak as a witness and how their words acquire force.
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