1 Boria meant both barn and business: ii.184.
1 ii.183. These were mountain areas near Barcelona and Gerona.
1 ii.487. Casteldans is in the region of Lérida.
2 Juncosa is in the region of Tarragona.
1 iii.135. In the region of Montaillou and Prades, where there were no isolated farms, the cabanes acted in a sense as scattered though temporary dwellings. See ii.172 for the few ‘cabanes for animals’ in Prades d’Aillon, belonging to a couple of local farmers.
1 As noted elsewhere, the occupation of shepherd in this region was essentially masculine: there was no Joan of Arc or ‘little shepherdess’ in upper Ariège. However, it did sometimes happen that a women, especially a widow, took her sheep to the pastures. See the cases of Guillemette ‘Benete’ and Raymonde Belot (iii.70), though the text is ambiguous.
2 La Roche-Flavin, Treize livres des Parlements de France, pp. 10–20, quoted by Louis de Santi and Auguste Vidal, Deux livres de raison (record books or registers) (1517–1550), special volume of Archives Historiques de l’Albigeois, fasc. 4, Paris and Toulouse, 1896.
1 Théâtre d’agriculture, Paris, 1600, Vol. I, Ch. VI.
1 iii. 186. ii.183 is more ambiguous.
2 ii.175. The shepherds’ world was itself a vast information network: the shepherds and the mountain folk in general were linked by signals and shrill cries which carried over large distances from one hill to another (i.403).