Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Bücher

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.

Focusing on the tithe, this book explores its significance within the agrarian ancien regime, particularly in pre-1789 France. It delves into the historical implications of this levy, providing insights into traditional societies and their economic structures. Historians will find the examination of the tithe's role in shaping social and economic dynamics both informative and engaging.

       Hailed as a pioneering work of       "total history" when it was published in France in 1966, Le Roy Ladurie's       volume combines elements of human geography, historical demography, economic       history, and folk culture in a broad depiction of a great agrarian cycle,       lasting from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It describes the conflicts       and contradictions of a traditional peasant society in which the rise in       population was not matched by increases in wealth and food production.       "It presents us with a great study of rural history, an analysis of economic change and a description of a society in movement that has few equals." -- Washington Post Book World "It is without any doubt one of the most important, if not the most important, monograph of the French Annales school of socio-economic historians written in the last decade." -- Canadian Historical Review  

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is recognized as a highly original and imaginative historian, celebrated for his versatility over the past two decades. His work has garnered significant acclaim, particularly noted by Lawrence Stone in the New York Review of Books, highlighting his impactful contributions to the field of history.

"This collection illuminates the work of a truly remarkable scholar....singularly enjoyable and intellectually stimulating." - IAIN STEVENSON. Journal of historical Geography. "Exhilarating and humane." NICHOLAS HYMAN, Tribune. "No one has secured such international eminence nor has enjoyed such wide popular appeal... His particular virtuosity centres upon his readability, his superb imaginative talents and an uncanny knack of being to the fore of changing historical fashion. Sex, violence, religiosity, village sociability, climatic change, famine, sterility, literacy, death are but a few of the subjects he has explored in a dazzling career and which are reflected in this book." - OLWEN HUFTON, The Times Higher Education Supplement. "Any new book by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is an event." - DOUGLAS JOHNSON, New Society. "An ingenious and successful combination of narrative and analysis, micro-history and macro-history...reveals the immense intellectual appetite of Le Roy Ladurie...." - PETER BURKE, New Statesman.

Une vision de la cour de Louis XIV à travers les "Mémoires" de Saint-Simon. Véritable théoricien de la hiérarchie, Saint-Simon propose implicitement une vision de l'inégalité et de la hiérarcie qui trouve ses racines dans une ancienne tradition occidentale. Tout est vu au prisme de la hiérarchie, le politique comme le sacré, les cabales comme la sexualité, et même l'usage du tabac