The actual morality of the domus of Montaillou was very different from that created later by Protestant and Catholic, Puritan and Jansenist reformations, both kinds intolerant of sex and anxious to make people work. Whether they were Catholic or Cathars or in between, the people of Montaillou were not yet afraid of either sex or idleness.
E. La Roy Ladurie, Montaillou, tr. B. Bray (1978), 331
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