Overview
""This collection illuminates the work of a truly remarkable scholar....singularly enjoyable and intellectually stimulating."" - IAIN STEVENSON. Journal of historical Geography. ""Exhilarating and humane."" NICHOLAS HYMAN, Tribune. ""No one has secured such international eminence nor has enjoyed such wide popular appeal... His particular virtuosity centres upon his readability, his superb imaginative talents and an uncanny knack of being to the fore of changing historical fashion. Sex, violence, religiosity, village sociability, climatic change, famine, sterility, literacy, death are but a few of the subjects he has explored in a dazzling career and which are reflected in this book."" - OLWEN HUFTON, The Times Higher Education Supplement. ""Any new book by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is an event."" - DOUGLAS JOHNSON, New Society. ""An ingenious and successful combination of narrative and analysis, micro-history and macro-history...reveals the immense intellectual appetite of Le Roy Ladurie...."" - PETER BURKE, New Statesman.
Full Product Details
Author: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ,
Ben Reynolds ,
Professor in French Sian Reynolds (The University of Stirling UK)
Publisher: Edward Everett Root
Imprint: Edward Everett Root
Volume: 21
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781911454106
ISBN 10: 1911454102
Publication Date: 30 April 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This collection illuminates the work of a truly remarkable scholar....singularly enjoyable and intellectually stimulating. - IAIN STEVENSON. Journal of historical Geography. Exhilarating and humane. NICHOLAS HYMAN, Tribune. No one has secured such international eminence nor has enjoyed such wide popular appeal... His particular virtuosity centres upon his readability, his superb imaginative talents and an uncanny knack of being to the fore of changing historical fashion. Sex, violence, religiosity, village sociability, climatic change, famine, sterility, literacy, death are but a few of the subjects he has explored in a dazzling career and which are reflected in this book. - OLWEN HUFTON, The Times Higher Education Supplement. Any new book by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is an event. - DOUGLAS JOHNSON, New Society. An ingenious and successful combination of narrative and analysis, micro-history and macro-history...reveals the immense intellectual appetite of Le Roy Ladurie.... - PETER BURKE, New Statesman.
Author Information
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien Régime, particularly the history of the peasantry. His landmark book Montaillou - which was published in 1975 to wide acclaim - had a huge impact on historical studies and remains a classic.
