{"product_id":"montaillou-the-promised-land-of-error-9780807615980","title":"Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historians experience and which is usually reserved for the winner of the Prix Goncourt...Montaillou  which is the reconstruction of the social life of a medieval village  has been acclaimed by the experts as a masterpiece of ethnographic history and by the public as a sensational revelation of the thoughts  feelings  and activities of the ordinary people of the past.\"Times Literary Supplement. 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. Laduries 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 cur 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 inquisitors prison in his own country. Montaillou  which has received even more praise than LeRoy Laduries earlier work  provides a portrait of a fascinating place with a dark  intriguing history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665845444661,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807615986","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807615980.jpg?v=1782409935","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/montaillou-the-promised-land-of-error-9780807615980","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}