Annales School
[Th]A French school of historical thought, established by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in the late 1920s and developed by Fernand Braudel in the 1950s and 1960s, which focuses on the idea of the ...
Fernand Braudel
(1902–85)Frenchhistorian, best known as a leading light of the Annales School, and from his elevation to the Collège de France in 1949 until his death one of the most influential historians in ...
feudalism
[De]A strictly hierarchical political and economic system in which land is granted in return for military or labour services.
Historiography
As in other parts of Europe, French historical writing has gone through a number of more or less distinct phases since the Middle Ages, of which it may be useful ...
Judaism and Jews in France
The history of Jews and Judaism in France falls into two broad sections: before and after the emancipation act of 1791, which accorded full citizenship to the Jewish ‘nations’. The ...
