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Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and ‘dismantle a social structure.’ In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of students and historians to the feudal period, Bloch treats feudalism as living, breathing force in Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. At its heart lies a magisterial account of relations of lord and vassal, and the origins of the nature of the fief, brought to life through compelling accounts of the nobility, knighthood and chivalry, family relations, political and legal institutions, and the church. For Bloch history was a process of constant movement and evolution and he describes throughout the slow process by which feudal societies turned into what would become nation states. A tour de force of historical writing, Feudal Society is essential reading for anyone interested in both Western Europe’s past and present.

Reviews:..one of those rare books of impeccable scholarship which no intelligent person could possibly read without pleasure and interest and excitement.’ – Geoffrey Barraclough, The Observer

• ‘…a book for every intelligent reader interested in the living past of Europe.’ C.V.Wedgwood, The Daily Telegraph

• This is a master piece of historical research about Feudalism in Europe, China and Japan. There are nuggets of unassuming wisdom, details of feudal mind, anatomy of society, land holding, classes and history of ideas and language of elites and the common people as well as religion from the beginning of the first to the end of the second stage of feudalism in different parts of Europe

Marc Bloch (1886 – 1944) was a French historian who lectured in Medieval and Economic history. He is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and the posthumously-published title The Historian’s Craft.