Feudal Society, Volume 1 - Softcover

Bloch, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226059782 ISBN 13: 9780226059785

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1964

Synopsis

"Few have set themselves to the formidable task of reconstructing and analyzing a whole human environment; fewer still have succeeded. Bloch dared to do this and was successful; therein lies the enduring achievement of Feudal Society."—Charles Garside, Yale Review

About this title

Review:

'Here is one of those rare books of impeccable scholarship which no intelligent person could possibly read without pleasure and interest and excitement. What Bloch's book gives us is the anatomy of an age.' – Geoffrey Barraclough

About the Author:

Marc Bloch was born at Lyons in 1886. He was for many years professor of medieval history at the University of Strasbourg before being called in 1936 to the Chair of Economic History at the Sorbonne. In 1939, he volunteered for active service; he was already fifty-three. After the fall of France in 1940, he went to the south, where he taught at the universities of Clermont Ferrand and Montpellier. When the south, too, was occupied, he joined the Resistance but was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, and finally shot in June 1944.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0226059782
• ISBN 13: 9780226059785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304