by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Barbara Bray
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...
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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