Montaillou (a village in Occitania from 1294 to 1324)

Author: (French) Lucien Febvre
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Publish Date: 1997-10-01
Features: Montaillou is a small shepherd village in the south of France that speaks Occitan. In 1320, Jacques Fournier, who was then the Bishop of Pamiers (later Pope), came to investigate as a judge of the Inquisition. During the investigation and trial of various cases, he, like a modern detective, discovered and grasped all the secrets of the village, including the daily lives of the residents, personal privacy, as well as various contradictions and conflicts, and recorded them in detail. The famous French scholar Lucien Febvre, with the sensitivity and meticulousness of a historian, discovered and utilized these valuable historical materials, and the life, thoughts, customs, and characteristics of the 14th-century French people in this village six hundred years ago using modern historical, anthropological, and sociological methods.