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The Historian's Craft (French: Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien) is a 1949 book by Marc Bloch and first published in English in 1953 (New York: Knopf). It was the first of his works to be translated into English. [ 1 ]
Marc Bloch was born in Lyon on 6 July 1886, [2] one of two children [3] to Gustave [note 1] and Sarah Bloch, [3] née Ebstein. [5] Bloch's family were Alsatian Jews: secular, liberal and loyal to the French Republic. [6] They "struck a balance", says the historian Carole Fink, between both "fierce Jacobin patriotism and the antinationalism of ...
Marc Bloch (6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France over the course of his career.
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Strange Defeat (French: L'Étrange Défaite) is a book written in the summer of 1940 by French historian Marc Bloch.The book was published in 1946; in the meanwhile, Bloch had been tortured and executed by the Gestapo in June 1944 for his participation in the French resistance.
Les Rois thaumaturges: Étude sur le caractère supernaturel attribué à la puissance royale particulièrement en France et en Angleterre (The Royal touch : Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France [1]) is a work by historian Marc Bloch first published in 1924.
The creators of the game Half-Life 2 reference Bloch's work: the central villain, Dr. Wallace Breen refers to the player's character, Gordon Freeman in a televised speech saying "And yet, unsophisticated minds continue to imbue him with romantic power, giving him such dangerous poetic labels as 'the one free man, the opener of the way.'"
"That Hell-Bound Train" is a dark fantasy short story by American writer Robert Bloch. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in September 1958. Plot summary