Pyrenean village, 1294-1324, caught between Albigensian heretics and the Inquisition, brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary documents. Ordinary community is laid bare as authentically as in a novel. Also: Carnival, etc.
(Montaillou was also one of CounterPunch's Favorite 100 Nonfiction Books in Translation Published in English Since 1900)
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