转自：http://www.qiji.cn/books/detailed/127.html 蒙塔尤是法国南部讲奥克语的一个牧民小山村。1320年，当时任帕米埃主教（后为教皇）的雅克·富尼埃作为宗教裁判所法官到此办案。在调查、审理各种案件的过程中，他像现代侦探一样发现和掌握了该山村的所有秘密，包括居民的日常生活、个人隐私以及种种矛盾、冲突等，并把它们详细记录下来。 法国著名学者勒华拉杜里以历史学家的敏感和精细发现并利用了这些珍贵史料，并以现代历史学、人类学和社会学方法再现了600多年前该村落居民的生活、思想、习俗的全貌和14世纪法国的特点。

In the early 1300's the village of Montaillou & the surrounding mountainous region of Southern France was full of heretics. When Jacquest Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers, launched an elaborate Inquisition to stamp them out, the peasants & shepherds he interrogated revealed, along with their position on official Catholicism, many details of their everyday life. Basing his absorbing study on these vivid, carefully recorded statements of peasants who lived more than 600 years ago--Pierre Clergue, the powerful village priest & shameless womanizer is even heard explaining his techniques of seduction--eminent historian Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the economy & social structure of the community & probes the most intimate aspects of medieval life: love & marriage, gestures & emotions, conversations & gossip, clans & factions, crime & violence, concepts of time & space, attitudes to the past, animals, magic & folklore, death & beliefs about the other world.