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<jats:p>The terrors of the year 1000 have been a popular myth, specially in France between 1830 and 1870, but the scholars then succeeded in arguing against it. To day, Richard Landes has built a new kind of myth, ail around the Peace of God and the so called « feudal revolution » which he has found in some books of Georges Duby and Pierre Bonnassie ; he speaks of millenarism, that is to say of popular hope as well as of monastic fears. But here we find some preconceptions and misunderstandings of the texts. Actually no sure evidence may be found of a real egalitarism. Christian authors do often quote the Apocalyse or messianic prophets, but seldom with real fear of the forthcoming End and more frequently in an allegorical or mystical sense. If we want to discover new things in the primary sources of the years 989-1041 (including canons of the peace councils), it is worth using legal anthropology and following the path of Peter Brown. So we can replace the peaces of God in their real historical background, which was neither a social crisis nor an eschatological one.</jats:p>