REVISITING MONTAILLOU.
Based on extensive scholarship in English and French, this article offers an analytical survey of both the laudatory and critical reception of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou (1975). I revisit the Latin text of Jacques Fournier's register and compare it with relevant fragments in the French and...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 3 - 24 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2025
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