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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

    July 19, 1929 – November 22, 2023

    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was a French historian whose work primarily focused on the history of the peasantry in Languedoc during the Ancien Régime. His extensive scholarship is characterized by a deep interest in the daily lives and social structures of the past. Ladurie employed meticulous research to bring the past to life, offering readers insights into the experiences of ordinary people. His approach to history has been influential, inspiring many other scholars to explore the less-documented aspects of historical events.

    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
    Saint-Simon ou le système de la Cour
    Territory of the Historian
    The Mind and Method of the Historian
    PEASANTS OF LANGUEDOC
    Montaillou
    Tithe and Agrarian History from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century
    • 2018

      "La construction de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) n'a pas été un long fleuve tranquille. Entre la vieille Bibliothèque nationale de la rue Richelieu - dirigée par l'historien Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - et le projet élyséen d'une très grande bibliothèque (TGB), inscrite dans la suite des Grands Travaux, vont s'enchaîner les polémiques et les luttes intestines. Comment l'idée de cette bibliothèque futuriste, dotée de toutes les vertus de la modernité, va-t-elle évoluer au fil des événements pour devenir la nouvelle Bibliothèque nationale? Ces entretiens nous permettent de saisir le fonctionnement de cette institution, symbole de l'esprit culturel français."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

      De la BN à la BnF
    • 2017

      Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is recognized as a highly original and imaginative historian, celebrated for his versatility over the past two decades. His work has garnered significant acclaim, particularly noted by Lawrence Stone in the New York Review of Books, highlighting his impactful contributions to the field of history.

      The Mind and Method of the Historian
    • 2017

      "This collection illuminates the work of a truly remarkable scholar....singularly enjoyable and intellectually stimulating." - IAIN STEVENSON. Journal of historical Geography. "Exhilarating and humane." NICHOLAS HYMAN, Tribune. "No one has secured such international eminence nor has enjoyed such wide popular appeal... His particular virtuosity centres upon his readability, his superb imaginative talents and an uncanny knack of being to the fore of changing historical fashion. Sex, violence, religiosity, village sociability, climatic change, famine, sterility, literacy, death are but a few of the subjects he has explored in a dazzling career and which are reflected in this book." - OLWEN HUFTON, The Times Higher Education Supplement. "Any new book by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is an event." - DOUGLAS JOHNSON, New Society. "An ingenious and successful combination of narrative and analysis, micro-history and macro-history...reveals the immense intellectual appetite of Le Roy Ladurie...." - PETER BURKE, New Statesman.

      Territory of the Historian
    • 2008

      Tithe and Agrarian History from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century

      An Essay in Comparative History

      • 220 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Focusing on the tithe, this book explores its significance within the agrarian ancien regime, particularly in pre-1789 France. It delves into the historical implications of this levy, providing insights into traditional societies and their economic structures. Historians will find the examination of the tithe's role in shaping social and economic dynamics both informative and engaging.

      Tithe and Agrarian History from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century
    • 2005

      Autor na základě inkvizičních protokolů z přelomu 13.–14. století rekonstruuje osudy katarské vesnice. Využívá přitom historické i antropologické metody a líčí život středověkých vesničanů ve všech jeho bizarních podobách. V roce 1320 začal inkvizitor Jacques Fournier, biskup v Pamiers a pozdější avignonský papež Benedikt XII., vyšetřovat 250 obyvatel horské vesničky Montailou v kraji Horní Ariege, kteří byli podezřelí z katarské hereze. Tento okcitánský „Maigret“ zachytil ve svém inkvizičním protokolu každodenní události, pomluvy, skandály, řevnivost, zločiny a násilí, vytváření lokálních klanů a spojenectví, milenecké i manželské svazky, magické pověry a praktiky, folklor i víru v revenanty…

      Montaillou, okcitánská vesnice v letech 1294-1324
    • 2002

      Histoire des paysans français

      De la peste noire à la Révolution

      • 828 pages
      • 29 hours of reading

      Histoire du monde rural reliant la terre aux hommes, au fil de deux grands cycles agraires, médiéval et moderne (du XIVe au XVIIe siècles) et moderne contemporain (représenté par le XVIIIe siècle).

      Histoire des paysans français
    • 2001

      En France, l'Etat-nation est parvenu à forger son unité malgré la diversité des régions qui l'ont composé. Aujourd'hui, cette unité est parfois remise en cause par les revendications identitaires des aires périphériques. E. Le Roy Ladurie rend compte des diverses histoires régionales et de leur intégration, et entame une réflexion tournée vers l'avenir

      Histoire de France des régions
    • 2001

      Masopust v Romansu

      • 434 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Kniha jednoho z předních francouzských historiků, jenž se proslavil svou vynikající prací o dějinách každodenního života katarské vesnice Montaillou na přelomu 13. a 14. století. V Masopustu v Romans Ladurie barvitě vykreslil obraz slavností, her, volného času a divokých renesančních zábav. Na pozadí karnevalů na francouzsko–italském pomezí Ladurie jedinečně zachytil městskou a venkovskou každodennost a mentalitu konce 16. století.

      Masopust v Romansu
    • 2000

      Montaillou

      Ein Dorf vor dem Inquisitor 1294 bis 1324

      • 461 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      In the early 1300's the village of Montaillou & the surrounding mountainous region of Southern France was full of heretics. When Jacquest Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers, launched an elaborate Inquisition to stamp them out, the peasants & shepherds he interrogated revealed, along with their position on official Catholicism, many details of their everyday life. Basing his absorbing study on these vivid, carefully recorded statements of peasants who lived more than 600 years ago--Pierre Clergue, the powerful village priest & shameless womanizer is even heard explaining his techniques of seduction--eminent historian Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the economy & social structure of the community & probes the most intimate aspects of medieval life: love & marriage, gestures & emotions, conversations & gossip, clans & factions, crime & violence, concepts of time & space, attitudes to the past, animals, magic & folklore, death & beliefs about the other world.

      Montaillou