Word: montaillou
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...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 had once seemed an ordinary mountain town, each family clustered around a house that gave it not only shelter but identity. There was little class distinction and considerable sharing of resources. The villagers were united in fierce anticlericalism, and with reason. The regional ruler, the Count de Foix, had defended his fief from exorbitant church taxes. But when the aristocrat died, the bishops of Pamiers imposed ever more onerous tithes. The new church exactions doubtless influenced many villagers to consider the teachings of the Cathar parfaits (perfect ones, the heresy's elect...
...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