Books by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
“It’s exciting because he’s just got a superb eye for detail. He talks a lot about what it’s like to grow up in the Normandy countryside. He talks about moving to Montpellier and the southern culture he discovers there. You’ve just got a constant sense of this man who’s always looking at the world as a historian. He’s always aware of the kinds of things that might later interest a historian.” Read more...
The best books on Modern French History
Richard Vinen, Historian
“It is a classic book about the Inquisition that dealt with the Cathar heresy…There aren’t many books that are accessible to a general reader, which really give a sense of the remorselessness of the process of investigation and the way it could really affect a community. This book really does convey that. It also really reveals what a goldmine the Inquisition records are for social historians.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie were recommended
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A History of the Inquisition of Spain (Vol I)
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Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -
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The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain
by B. Netanyahu -
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All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
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Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
by James H. Sweet
The best books on The Inquisition, recommended by Toby Green
The best books on The Inquisition, recommended by Toby Green
The Papal, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions left records that are goldmines for historians. However, as Professor Toby Green explains, getting caught up in one of their investigations was no fun at all. Here he chooses five books to help you understand why the Inquisitions were created, what they were trying to achieve and why they lasted so long.
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800
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African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
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The Travels of Marco Polo
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Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -
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Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200-1500
by James Davis
The best books on The Middle Ages, recommended by Hannah Skoda
The best books on The Middle Ages, recommended by Hannah Skoda
Oxford medieval historian Hannah Skoda chooses her top five books on the Middle Ages, explaining why she finds the whole idea of their ‘middleness’ problematic and how a more global approach tends to shatter many long-held assumptions about the period.
The best books on Modern French History, recommended by Richard Vinen
The social and political development of France has been strongly contested ever since the country finally became a republic for good in 1870. Here, Professor Richard Vinen of King’s College London recommends five books that will help you understand modern France, all written in a golden age of French historical writing.
