Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Birth date: July 19, 1929
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Books
Apparently some Inquisitor back in the 14th century performed exceptionally detailed interrogations on an entire town; the author used those records to piece together a new look at exactly what life was like in that town. So it's not so much about the Inquisition as it is about every day life. Inter...
First published in 1967 and only slightly updated since, this is a pioneering work on the study of climate by historians. Le Roy Ladurie's main concern is to make a case for the careful and systematic historical investigation of climate evidence; to lay out the kind of sources that a historian could...
When I began my undergraduate career I was part of an honors seminar where this was one of the books we read.It was an eye-opening experience and probably did as much as anything at that time in propelling me to specialize in Medieval history. Montaillou was a village in southern France that suffere...
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