Marc Bloch
Bloch co-founded the Annales school of history, shifting focus from political events to long-term social and economic structures. Executed by the Nazis, he left Feudal Society and The Historian's Craft as monuments of historical method.
Works
- Feudal SocietyFoundational study of medieval European feudal social and economic structures
- The Historian's CraftManifesto on historical methodology and the historian's responsibilities
- French Rural HistorySocial history examining medieval and early modern peasant agriculture
- The Royal TouchHistorical investigation of supernatural royal healing powers and popular belief