Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel

(1929- )

   historian

   Born in Les Moutiers-en-Cinglais, Calvados, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a professor at the collège de france (1973) and served as administrator-general of the National Library (1987-94). He is one of the principal representatives of the "new history" associated with the Annales school (marc BLOCH, LUCIEN FEBVRE, FERNAND BRAUDEL, FRANÇOIS furet) that seeks an interdisciplinary approach to historical studies. Sensitive to phenomena that have evolved over a long period, Le Roy Ladurie speaks of "histoire immobile," and seeks a holistic and global approach in his research (Paysans du Languedoc, 1966). He has in such works explored areas long neglected by historians, such as climate (Histoire du climat depuis l'an mil, 1967), and has made accessible to a wide audience the aspects of historical anthropology (Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324, 1975; Le Carnival des Romans, 1980).