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Time- and Age-Awareness in Early Modern Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Daniel H. Kaiser  and
Peyton Engel
Daniel H. Kaiser
Affiliation:
Grinnell College
Peyton Engel
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 824 - 839
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1993

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