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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie; trans. Barbara Bray.
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 10th impression (previously issued 1980; hardback and original French edn. were both 1978).
ISBN 0140137009;
ISBN-13: 9780140137002.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Size: 128×196×18mm.
Page count: xvii,381pp.
Main language: English.
Overal condition fair to good: this copy has some grubby marks on its covers, a little wear to the edges and corners; pages yellowed with age, at least 1 has its corner turned over as a place marker; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price £10.99]
Weight without packaging: 271g.

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Contents:
1. Ecology — the house & the shepherd: Environment & authority; The domus; A dominant house — Clergue family; Shepherds; Great migrations; Life of shepherds in the Pyrenees; Shepherd’s mental outlook;
2. Archaeology of Montaillou — from body language to myth: Body language & sex; Libido of the Clergues; Temporary unions; Marriage & love; Marriage & condition of women; Childhood & other ages in life; Death in Montaillou; Cultural exchanges; Social relationships; Concepts of time & space; Fate, magic & salvation; Religion in practice; Morality, wealth & labour; Magic & the other world.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Indexes: Main families of Montaillou; Peasants listed in family tables.

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