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Marc Bloch


Born
in Lyon, France
July 06, 1886

Died
June 16, 1944

Genre
History


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. ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 6,868 ratings · 563 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors
The Historian's Craft: Refl...
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4.09 avg rating — 3,186 ratings — published 1949 — 16 editions
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Strange Defeat
3.99 avg rating — 1,234 ratings — published 1946 — 180 editions
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Feudal Society, Volume 1
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4.11 avg rating — 922 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions
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Feudal Society, Volume 2: S...
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4.17 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 1939 — 33 editions
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I re taumaturghi
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4.32 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1924 — 7 editions
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Feudal Society
4.25 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 1939 — 38 editions
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La guerra e le false notizi...
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3.92 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1980 — 21 editions
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French Rural History: An Es...
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Lavoro e tecnica nel Medioevo
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Che cosa chiedere alla storia?
3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”
― Marc Bloch
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“Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.”
― Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft
tags: academia, history, writing, writing-history
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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: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
tags: history
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