Love, Death And Money In The Pays D'Oc
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
In the sun-scorched villages of eighteenth-century southern France, a wandering preacher named Jean-l'ont-pris weaves a tale that binds together the most primal human forces: love, death, and inheritance. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Love, Death and Money in the Pays D'Oc is a landmark work of historical anthropology that decodes a seemingly simple Occitan folk tale — Jean-Baptiste Castor Fabre's comic novel Jean-l'ont-pris — to reveal the complex social and economic structures governing peasant life in the Languedoc region. Translated with precision by Alan Sheridan, the work presents a meticulous close-reading that uncovers the hidden architecture of rural French society, where marriage strategies, inheritance laws, and the ever-present shadow of mortality dictated the rhythms of daily existence. Le Roy Ladurie, one of the towering figures of the French Annales school of history, brings his characteristic blend of structural analysis and narrative flair to bear on a text that most had dismissed as mere entertainment. His method illustrates how folklore and popular literature serve as encrypted social documents, preserving the anxieties and aspirations of communities who left few other records. The result is a work that sits at the crossroads of literary criticism, social history, and anthropology — a testament to the radical idea that a peasant comedy can tell us as much about a civilization as any royal chronicle. For readers who have followed Le Roy Ladurie from Montaillou to Carnival in Romans, this volume is an indispensable and revelatory companion.
Author: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
In the sun-scorched villages of eighteenth-century southern France, a wandering preacher named Jean-l'ont-pris weaves a tale that binds together the most primal human forces: love, death, and inheritance. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Love, Death and Money in the Pays D'Oc is a landmark work of historical anthropology that decodes a seemingly simple Occitan folk tale — Jean-Baptiste Castor Fabre's comic novel Jean-l'ont-pris — to reveal the complex social and economic structures governing peasant life in the Languedoc region. Translated with precision by Alan Sheridan, the work presents a meticulous close-reading that uncovers the hidden architecture of rural French society, where marriage strategies, inheritance laws, and the ever-present shadow of mortality dictated the rhythms of daily existence. Le Roy Ladurie, one of the towering figures of the French Annales school of history, brings his characteristic blend of structural analysis and narrative flair to bear on a text that most had dismissed as mere entertainment. His method illustrates how folklore and popular literature serve as encrypted social documents, preserving the anxieties and aspirations of communities who left few other records. The result is a work that sits at the crossroads of literary criticism, social history, and anthropology — a testament to the radical idea that a peasant comedy can tell us as much about a civilization as any royal chronicle. For readers who have followed Le Roy Ladurie from Montaillou to Carnival in Romans, this volume is an indispensable and revelatory companion.