How long does it take to read Feudal Society?
Feudal Society by Marc Bloch takes about 9 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1939. 499 pages, about 137,225 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 77 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain world. His insights into the lives of the nobility and the clergy and his deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe, are profound and memorable.
Subjects: Féodalité, Feudalism, History, Feudal law, Histoire, Middle Ages
