Time- and Age-Awareness in Early Modern Russia

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ID2107952
AutoresDaniel H Kaiser, Daniel Kaiser (0000-0002-9007-3160, Grinnell College), Peyton Engel (0000-0002-6977-5387, University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Año1993
Volumen35
Número4
Páginas824-839
Fecha de publicación1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500018727
OpenAlexW2069569118
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas19

Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie has observed that in medieval Montaillou 'time was always vague,' so that 'history was absent or almost absent from Montaillou culture.' According to the inquisition record on which LeRoy Ladurie depended, Montaillou villagers often found it difficult to determine exactly how long ago a given event had occurred. They described past events as having happened 'three or four years ago,' 'seventeen or eighteen years ago,' 'twenty or twenty-four years since.' Others quantified the past by referring to 'the time when the heretics predominated in Montaillou, before the round-up by the Inquisition in Carcassonne.' Unsurprisingly, the same imprecision governed their sense of age. In rural Montaillou, the rhythm of transhumance more readily marked time than did any abstract calendar (LeRoy Ladurie 1979:280-1

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