Feudal Society, Volume 2 - Couverture souple

Bloch, Marc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226059790 ISBN 13 : 9780226059792

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1964

Synopsis

Book by Marc Bloch

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain world. His insights into the lives of the nobility and the clergy and his deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe, are profound and memorable.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0226059790
• ISBN 13: 9780226059792
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 229