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# Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

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## Customer Reviews

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    Time travel into a different reality.
  

*by F***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2007*

This is one of THE most important books for anyone interested in the varieties of the human mind. Thanks to the compulsive thoroughness of an early 14th century inquisitor (a bishop who became pope), lengthy quotes from the people that he was interrogating came to be preserved in the Vatican library. The accused are heretics, stubborn country folk supporting "the resistance", as it were, that handful of Cathar holy men hiding in the woods following the Church's campaign savage against the flourishing southern French civilization around the town of Albi in the first quarter of the 13th century. In spite of the slashing and burning that had laid waste to the land of the Cathars in the previous century, the folks of Montaillou were stubborn in holding to their beliefs, and here it gets interesting.What on earth were these people like, what issues could possibly matter enough to medieval farmers for them to put their lives on the line over subtle theological distinctions, like whether the Trinity was indivisible? LeRoy Ladurie thankfully quotes extensively from the sources, and a picture emerges of a Christian religion influenced by contact with the Eastern Gnostics, leaning towards a belief in reincarnation and the virtues of vegetarian asceticism. The Catholic Church was seen as a nasty political beast at odds with a true faith, and the villagers turn out to have been surprisingly sophisticated, reading books, for instance, at a time when only hand-copied manuscripts existed. It is apparent that many popular religious movements preceded the protestant schism.In their literal testimony we glimpse the villagers' daily lives, their sense of time and reality, their relations with neighbors (like the Moors of northern Spain), as well as a social organization that was more communal (and less class-divided) than our unconsciously marxist-influenced history books would have it. The lady of the manor is seen regularly spending time gossiping in the kitchens of the farmers, the shepherds tend each others' flocks on cash contract, and when it's safe, religion is vigorously debated by the fire. It's not a dark oppressed feudal world. The romantic entanglements of the village priest alone are enough to liven the place up. If we had such documents for other times and places, in which people's thinking was as thoroughly documented, we might better appreciate our origins. This book is a gold mine.

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    Fascinating
  

*by M***P on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2022*

Although I wish there was more direct quotes from the source, it’s a fascinating read

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    A bottom-up retrospective anthropology
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2014*

Montaillou is based on the meticulous, early 14th-century records of inquisitor-bishop Jacques Fournier (later Pope Benedict XII, r. 1334-42) who successfully hunted to the ground the Albigensian heresy in its final outpost, the remote area around a small village in the southwest mountain region of what today is France.  Fournier's industriousness provided the raw material for Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's fine portrait of everyday peasant life in the Middle Ages--or at least the sort of peasant life lived in a region of the Pyrenees dominated by sheep herding.Le Roy Ladurie is most interested in sexuality, life course, social relationships, clan rivalries, and religious practice.  (To my mind, the last is the most convincing because it was Fournier's chief concern as well.)  The work is not a narrative, though it does have a protagonist of sorts, a parish priest who is both a shameless womanizer and a not-so-secret Cathar.Montaillou has been called a "microhistory."  It might be better described as retrospective anthropology.  Le Roy Ladurie often recycles the same testimony from the Fournier Register in different topical chapters to illustrate different points.  Those who understand what the author is about will probably enjoy this unusual bottom-up view of the 14th century; those who don't may find the book dull, academic, and overly repetitive.

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