Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94He led a movement that rejected historiography's traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the "mental universe" of peasants, merchants and clergymen.
Source: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94 (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/23/books/emmanuel-le-roy-ladurie-dead.html)