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Title: Montaillou : The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladruie, Barbara Bray ISBN: 0-394-72964-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 July, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.15 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Important and a good read
Comment: In my historiography classes this book has been lauded and used as an example of a new form of history-writing: a complete discription of a village and all it's aspects: religion, sex, food, families, houses etc.
It is definitely not a boring book about one particular subject but covers wide aspects of the Pyrennee Village of Montaillou. Besides being interesting to read it also might open your eyes about certain ideas we might have had about religion and society in the 14th century. We read now that everyone slept with everyone, including the priest, the greatest fornicator of them all. Homosexuality is normal and people cried a lot sooner than now.
Read it and be amazed about 14th century France, it's different than you always though
Rating: 5
Summary: Disgustingly Good...
Comment: This book was a very good look at the early Church. In school I was always taught that the first Christain group to rebel againt the Catholics, was Martin Luther's people. Just another thing public school messes up. It was amazing to learn there were "heretical groups" almost 300 years before Luther. I also surprised my English professor when I told her there were Inquisitions before the famous Spanish one.
The most disguting part though, was the "cure for lust" It was better for the priests to have intercourse with boys on dung heaps than to sleep with women. It's interesting to know that, while these were Cathars and not Catholics, this type of homosexual pedaphilia is nothing new to religion. Definitely a book well worth reading to get another look at the insanity of the Middle Ages.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding case studies of commoners' lives.
Comment: This is definitely academic reading. Concerning itself chiefly with a cluster of tiny villages in the extreme south of France, the book takes details of villagers' confessions to the Inquisition to show what life was like for them. I found it to be very well-written, lucid, and not difficult to digest.
Ladurie (Amazon misspells his name continually as "Ladruie" -- either that or the book cover misspells it) extrapolates some amazing things from these confessions. Ideas of time and space, how villagers thought of the home and the family, concepts of sexuality and social status.. there's a lot here, extensively footnooted and extensively supported. As someone's said, this is definitely not light reading.
Ladurie spends quite a bit of time talking about religion, which is logical considering that Inquisition files are his source material. I did not detect a bias against either Catholicism or Catharism. Since his focus isn't actually religion, however, but an allover view of life in a remote, isolated 14th-century French/Spanish village, I wouldn't consider this specifically a resource for the study of Catharism. It is, however, an excellent resource for understanding people in a remote, isolated 14th-century French/Spanish village.
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Title: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi ISBN: 0801843871 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organization by Marc Bloch, L.A. Manyon ISBN: 0226059790 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1982 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Making of the Middle Ages by Richard W. Southern ISBN: 0300002300 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1953 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis ISBN: 0674766911 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: That Noble Dream : The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick, Quentin Skinner, Lorraine Daston, Dorothy Ross, James Tully ISBN: 0521357454 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 30 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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