Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324
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Bibliographic Information
Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324
（Penguin history）
Penguin, 1990
- Other Title
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Montaillou , village occitan de 1294 à 1324
Note
First published as Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324: Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1978
This translation first published in 1978 by Scolar Press
Includes index and bibliography
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The ecology of Montaillou - the house and the shepherd: environment and authority
- the domus
- a dominant house - the Clergue family
- the shepherds
- the great migrations
- the life of the shepherds in the Pyrenees
- the shepherd's mental outlook. Part 2 An archaeology of Montaillou - from body language to myth: body language and sex
- the libido of the Clergues
- temporary unions
- marriage and love
- marriage and the condition of women
- childhood and other ages in life
- death in Montaillou
- cultural exchanges
- social relationships
- concepts of time and space
- fate, magic and salvation
- religion in practice
- morality, wealth and labour
- magic and the other world.
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