La Société féodale

Two volumes on Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century, treating feudalism not as a legal scheme but as a whole way of living: invasions, ties of kinship and dependence, the sense of time and memory, nobles and kings. Bloch compares regions across Europe and asks what people felt as well as what they owned. It is the summit of the early Annales approach, written shortly before he was shot by the Gestapo in 1944.

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