Word: montaillou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
...Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie...
NONFICTION: Evita: First Lady, John Barnes ∙ Ezra Pound in Italy, edited by Gianfranco Ivancich, photographs by Vittorugo Contino ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ People of the Lake, Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Old School Tie, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
...Montaillou is rich in flawed humanity. Little Grazide Lizier, the 14-year-old who happily yielded to her cousin the priest, testifies: "In those days it pleased me, and it pleased the priest ... and so I did not think I was sinning, and neither did he. But now, with him, it does not please me any more. And so now, if he knew me carnally, I should think...
...wear the yellow cross of repentant heretics. As for the zealous bishop, he went on to become the zealous Pope Benedict XII. Harsh and unbending still, he at last corrected some of the ecclesiastical abuses that had first disturbed the flock long ago at the forgotten little town of Montaillou. - Mayo Mohs