Marc Bloch





Marc Bloch

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born
July 06, 1886 in Lyon, France

died
June 16, 1944

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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 in Lyon – 16 June 1944 in Saint-Didier-de-Formans) was a medieval historian, University Professor and French Army officer. Bloch was a founder of the Annales School, best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft. He was captured and shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France for his work in the French Resistance.


Average rating: 3.98 · 564 ratings · 60 reviews · 19 distinct works
The Historian's Craft
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1949 — 12 editions
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Feudal Society, Volume 1
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Feudal Society, Volume 2
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Strange Defeat: A Statement...
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French Rural History: An Es...
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Introduccion A La Historia
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Feudal Society
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1939 — 9 editions
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Marc Bloch: Memoirs of War,...
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Ajaloo apoloogia
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983
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“The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.”
Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft

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