>>18548598
I do actually because I was taught about him in college. He's not that important though. Iirc he was the first to analyze history as a sequence of causal chains rather than a mere sequence of dates, which prompted the descriptive turn in history (where we try explaining why things occured rather than simply noting that they did).

>This is a History board, after all
It's actually not. This place is a containment board for ~90 iq retards who can't comprehend basic notions but feel smug trying to debate on things they don't understand. It's why 90% of the posts here are about race, ethics, and religion

he did a lot of work on Medieval Europe, right? I haven't read him but I've read Wickham and others who mention him a lot in how the historiography developed

Nope, never head of him.

>Born in Lyon to an Alsatian Jewish family

>>18548608
His main contribution to historiography was insistence on long-term processes guiding history. It was, if turned into philosophy of history, a form of non-Marxist materialism. Unironically the father of le socioeconomic factors and very boring - but useful - papers about economic conditions in random place wherever in 1230.
The moment history happened around him he didn't see the process anymore, just events and decisions.

That being said he's not exactly some kind of moustache twirling villain. His research and work on feudal systems is a necessary basic reading even if contrarians cherrypick some inconsistencies. Despite being a jew he fought twice for France, thrice if you count resistance. Some issues I have with his implied philosophy of history don't really subtract from the value of his work, it's just the angle that I think plays second fiddle.

>>18548608
Bloch along with Pirenne and Braudel, depending on the era of the school, shifted from an analysis of social and economic structures in its early incarnation to studying the minds of common people in the past which eventually became the subfield of microhistory with figures like Robert Darnton. I respect the approach but my line of inquiry is closer to intellectual history generally speaking like Koselleck's history of concepts. Although I don't dabble in it, environmental history is interesting as well, especially the ecological conditions of pre-contact America and medieval Europe as well as epidemiological history in general. I can suggest relevant texts if anyone is interested.

>national Pantheon of France
Ungodly and profane

>>18548608
Did you attend college in France or a francophone country? I find that he's just not mentioned in the English speaking world much

>>18548964
>Successful academic and patriotic veteran respected and honored by his nation
/pol/dancers can seethe and whinge about it

>>18548598
I do, I've read strange defeat and feudal society.

>>18549034
>can suggest relevant texts if anyone is interested
Post them and save the thread before it gets derailed by modern politics