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  Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error (Paperback)(English / French) By (author) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Translated by Professor Barbara Bray

  

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  Short Description for Montaillou"Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historiansexperience and which is usually reserved for the winner of the PrixGoncourt...Montaillou, which is the reconstruction of the social lifeof a medieval village, has been acclaimed by the experts as amasterpiece of ethnographic history and by the public as a sensationalrevelation of the thoughts, feelings, and activities of the ordinarype
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  • Publisher: George Braziller
  • Published: 01 October 2008
  • Format: Paperback 383 pages
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  • Categories: European History
  • ISBN 13: 9780807615980 ISBN 10: 0807615986
  • Sales rank: 216,704

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• With a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France, almost destroyed by internal feuds and religious heterodoxy. Ladurie's portrait is based on a detailed register of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers and future Pope Benedict XII, who conducted rigorous inquisition into heresy within his diocese. Fournier was a consummate inquisitor, an acute psychologist who was able to elicit from the accused the innermost secrets of their thoughts and actions. He was pitiless in the pursuit of error, and meticulous in recording that pursuit.LeRoy Ladurie analyzes the behavior, demography, social mentality, and cosmology of the community of peasants and shepherds, and vividly evokes the daily life of the village and mountain pastures. His portrait of Montaillou is dominated by the personal histories of two men: the cure Pierre Clergue, a brutal and powerful man who placed his enemies in the hands of the inquisitor; and the shepherd Pierre Maury, a friend of the Albigensian perfecti and a fatalist who returned from Spain to disappear in the inquisitor's prison in his own country. Montaillou, which has received even more praise than LeRoy Ladurie's earlier work, provides a portrait of a fascinating place with a dark, intriguing history.