Montaillou - The World-Famous Portrait of Life in a Medieval Village - Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324

A fascinating sociological study of medieval life. But it is also far more. It is a Chaucerian gallery of vivid medieval people in which a unique document is used to reconstruct in detail a previously totally unknown world. The mental, emotional, and sexual lives of late thirteenth century peasants in a remote Pyrenean village are presented in deep focus...