Books by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

"There cannot be much serious doubt that in the last twenty years Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has been one of the most - if not the most - original, versatile, and imaginative historians in the world...LAWRENCE STONE, New York Review of Books.

The tithe is a levy characteristic of the agarian ancien regime, and is of great interest to historians of traditional societies such as pre-1789 France.