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 during the Ancien Régime. [1]

Works

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

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languedoc

https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/prospective-undergrads/virtual-classroom/secondary-source-exercises/sources-beliefs/ladurie-montaillou