MONTAILLOU The Promised Land of Error

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

ISBN 10: 0807608750 / ISBN 13: 9780807608753

Published by George Braziller, New York, 1978

About this Item

Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Top front corner bumped. Jacket spine heavily sunned, top front corner has a 1/2" tear. ; 8.9 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 383 pages. Seller Inventory # 133760

Bibliographic Details

Title: MONTAILLOU The Promised Land of Error

Publisher: George Braziller, New York

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition; Second Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

The detailed register kept by Jacques Fournier, the bishop of Pamiers and future pope and inquisitor, provides the basis for a study of the history of and daily life in a fourteenth-century village in southern France

About the Author:

Barbara Bray has twice won the Scott Moncrief Prize for her translations, as well as the French-American Foundation Prize. She has collaborated with Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey on a film adaptation of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. She passed away in 2010.