I will try to summarily describe the context of my title as well as the book, it being the incredible insight in lives of locals. The man, Jacques Fournier, was obsessed with recording nearly everything, and during his few years of chasing heretics in southern France (early 14th century) , he conducted hundreds of interviews/interrogations with locals, ranging from peasants to clergy and nobles, recorded nearly every word on paper and later brought those texts with him when he became the Pope, so they survived. In 1975, using those texts as a basis a French historian wrote a very fun book called ''Montaillou'', by the name of the village that is the focus of the story. Book doesn't have a fictional story, it simply follows the village over those years, using Fourniers texts as a basis. Amazing thing is that the said village still exists, with the same name and the same place (as do all surrounding villages). Right next to it are remains of a small castle/fort which was mentioned a lot in the book.
The reason why Montaillu is the subject of a modern book is because 25 of the interviewed people came from that village - a village numbering less than 200 people. That gave as an incredible insight in lives of ordinary people, who were ironically immortalized by the man that they were afraid the most - by immortalized, i mean that we know their names, their occupations, their private problems, their opinions of their neighbors, their world view, religious view, the course of their life over those 10 or so years.
For example, we know that the village had a castellan from the local noble family of Foix, he and his wife being the only nobles in the village. Community being small, he was practically the ''jack of all services'' doing various work, both policing and helping the local populace in anything needed. His wife was a lot younger and after he died she left the village and moved to the one next to it. She had quite a few lovers, including a local clergyman. Interesting thing is that she had quite a normal friendships with local peasant women, e.g. she would meet a girl she knows and they would hug in the middle of the street and chat like any modern neighbors.
People almost never spent time inside their own house except during night - when not working, which was quite often because of mad number of free days, people would visit each other, spending time in other houses or simply in the field or street, chatting all day. Also, it is described that a lot o
... keep reading on reddit ➡I've always assumed -in the comics- he named her after the 1939 movie's Dorothy. But because of the changed origin, it would have to be beforehand.
Maybe after the book from 1900? But that wasn't nearly as popular
Yesterday, the General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, released a statement naming Syrian Democratic Forces and Iraqi Security Forces responsible for the liberation of the formerly ISIS held regions of Iraq and Syria. In the interest of keeping track, in the case that this information falls to distortion and misinformation, into obscurity, or unavailability, this post intends to document the authoritative information available on the matter. Feel free to add further information or start a related discussion.
The release and related:
Update:
In new press releases as of four days ago, it looks like Trump had already altered reports about these most recent victories over ISIS. Though I'm unable to clearly discern image details due to poor image resolution, that looks like the JCS seal in the heading, but the report doesn't appear to list "Joint Chiefs of Staff" anywhere, as if he just crossed it out or otherwise crossed out the name of whichever department produced the report. This isn't the first time Trump's delivered statements to the media where he has crossed out sections using a black permanent marker.
^(I don't know what all of this means and I won't speculate. Just reporting the available information.)
When a country as big as Brazil elects a bigot, nations like ours have only one choice- respect the bigot and do trade as normal with Brazil. But giving the bigot the respect his elected office deserves is a totally different thing from presenting the bigot as the chief guest for Republic Day.
Including examples from the past, if there are any, I think we should stop selling the position of Chief Guest in the name of foreign policy.
Last year I spent a lot of time covering the unfolding events in Syria for Sky News. I covered the devastating impact on civilians in Homs, the battle for Aleppo and got exclusive footage and interviews with UK jihadists. It was there I met a lawless rebel group – soon to become the most feared in the Middle East – IS. In 2010 I was the first foreign journalist to enter the Swat Valley after the Taliban took control and obtained footage of Taliban training camps for suicide bombers for which we received an International Emmy. More recently I witnessed the uprisings in Ukraine and reported on the scene from the MH17 crash site. I had a count up and I have covered 18 wars from Chechnya through Africa, and the Middle East to Afghanistan and Iraq. I’ve done a fair few earthquakes too.
I’ve just come back from spending a week traveling through Mexico and meeting some of the country's most notorious and dangerous criminals, including a man who claims to have killed over 500 people. You can read my article and watch my first report here: http://news.sky.com/story/1388764/mexican-hitmen-held-in-vigilantes-illegal-jail
Join me for my reddit AMA now!
https://twitter.com/reddit_AMA/status/542711422028103680
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Thanks for all your questions, was great fun answering them. You can watch the rest of my reports from Mexico over the coming days on Sky News on Apple TV & Roku and on the Sky News YouTube channel
José and Hose-B
