Montaillou (book)

Montaillou

Cover of the 1975 edition
Author	Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Original title	Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324
Translator	Barbara Bray
Subject	Catharism, history from below, Montaillou
Genre	History, nonfiction
Published	1975
Publisher	Gallimard
Published in English	1978

Montaillou ([mɔ̃.ta.ju]; French: Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324, lit. 'Montaillou, an Occitan Village from 1294 to 1324') is a book by the French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie first published in 1975. It was first translated into English in 1978 by Barbara Bray, and has been subtitled The Promised Land of Error and Cathars and Catholics in a French Village.

Montaillou was Ladurie's "most important and popular work".^[1] Ladurie used the inquisitorial records of Jacques Fournier to reconstruct the lives of the inhabitants of Montaillou in the Ariège (at the time, the county of Foix).^[2] The work was part of the historical anthropology of the Annales school.