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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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In the early 1300's the village of Montaillou & the surrounding mountainous region of Southern France was full of heretics. When Jacquest Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers, launched an elaborate Inquisition to stamp them out, the peasants & shepherds he interrogated revealed, along with their position on official Catholicism, many details of their everyday life. Basing his absorbing study on these vivid, carefully recorded statements of peasants who lived more than 600 years ago--Pierre Clergue, the powerful village priest & shameless womanizer is even heard explaining his techniques of seduction--eminent historian Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the economy & social structure of the community & probes the most intimate aspects of medieval life: love & marriage, gestures & emotions, conversations & gossip, clans & factions, crime & violence, concepts of time & space, attitudes to the past, animals, magic & folklore, death & beliefs about the other world.

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Pages:: pages

Publication:: 1979

Publisher:: Vintage/Random House (NY)

Edition:: Later Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0394729641

ISBN13:: 9780394729640

kindle Asin:: 0394729641

Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

3.99/5 (1375 ratings)

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In the early 1300's the village of Montaillou & the surrounding mountainous region of Southern France was full of heretics. When Jacquest Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers, launched an elaborate Inquisition to stamp them out, the peasants & shepherds he interrogated revealed, along with their position on official Catholicism, many details of their everyday life. Basing his absorbing study on these vivid, carefully recorded statements of peasants who lived more than 600 years ago--Pierre Clergue, the powerful village priest & shameless womanizer is even heard explaining his techniques of seduction--eminent historian Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the economy & social structure of the community & probes the most intimate aspects of medieval life: love & marriage, gestures & emotions, conversations & gossip, clans & factions, crime & violence, concepts of time & space, attitudes to the past, animals, magic & folklore, death & beliefs about the other world.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 1979

Publisher:: Vintage/Random House (NY)

Edition:: Later Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0394729641

ISBN13:: 9780394729640

kindle Asin:: 0394729641

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