Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394729640 (0394729641)
Publish date: July 12th 1979
Publisher: Vintage/Random House (NY)
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Religion,
France,
Social Science,
European History,
World History,
14th Century
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...
Log in with Facebook 
