Summary
Emmanuel La Roy Ladurie: Montaju, an Occitan village from 1294 to 1324.
Those who want to know the peasant from old or very old systems do not lack large syntheses that cover a province, an entire country or the West. What is sometimes missing here is a direct view: the testimony of the peasant himself, without an intermediary....Luckily for us, in the 14th century, one man completely demographically gave the floor to the peasants and to an entire village. In this case, it is about a village in southern Occitania...
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