ABSTRACT
Reprinted from Feudal Society (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1961). Marc Bloch was born in Lyons, France, in 1886. After serving as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Strasbourg he was appointed in 1936 to the Chair of Economic History at the Sorbonne. In 1939, at age fifty-three, he volunteered for active service. After the fall of France in 1940, he went to the South where he taught at the University 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.
