Marc Bloch Quotes


History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.


Citations

Bloch, Marc. "Toward a Comparative History of European Societies." Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe: Selected Papers by Marc Bloch, translated by J. E. Anderson, Harper & Row, 1967, p. 44.

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Marc Bloch
Marc Bloch
  • Born: July 6, 1886
  • Died: June 16, 1944
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Historian

Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch 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. As an academic, he worked at the University of Strasbourg (1920 to 1936), the University of Paris (1936 to 1939), and the University of Montpellier (1941 to 1944).