Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Introduction

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) is a renowned French historian. His main topic of study is the history of the peasantry, with a focus on the Occitane region of Languedoc [1] during the Ancien Régime. [2]

Works

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s most known work is Montaillou [3], which focuses on the history of the omonimous French village at the beginning of the 14th century.