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Dr Eleanor Janega
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That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. linktr.ee/EleanorJanega
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Marc Bloch is an example for all of humanity, but to historians, and medieval historians especially. May we all show this courage in the face of the latest rise of fascism, and stop it before it comes to this.

LConslies.bsky.social

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

his comrades address him with a look of amazement. "extraordinary! You don't even seem to mind this awful uncertainty!" My friend could have answered that, despite the popular prejudice, the mental climate of research is not so unsympathetic to ready acceptance of the lottery of fate.
Even in action, we are far too prone to judge. It is so easy to denounce. WE are never sufficiently understanding. Whoever differs form us -- a foreigner or a political adversary -- is almost inevitably considered evil. A little more understanding of people would be necessary merely for guidance, in the conflicts which are unavoidable; all the more to prevent them while there is yet time. If history would only renounce its false angelic airs, it would help us to cure this weakness. It includes a vast experience of human diversities, a continuous contact with men. Life, like science, has everything to gain from it, if only these contacts be friendly.
This is in all honesty to acknowledge the subordination of the perspectiv to the peculiar angle of the inquiry. Moreover, lt us take care: in history, the fetish of single cause is all too often only the insidious form of search for the responsible person -- hence a value judgment. The judge expresses it as: 'who is right, and who is wrong?' The scholar is content to ask: 'why?' and he accepts the fact that the answer may not be simple. Whether as a prejudice of common sense, a postulate of logicians, or a habit of prosecuting attorneys, the monism of cause can be, for history, only an impediment. History seeks for causal wavetrains and is not afraid, since life shows them to be so, to find them multiple.
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TMathodyd.bsky.social

I wonder if he's any relation to the Marcel & Darius Dassault (previously Bloch, then adopted Darius' Resistance code name) or maybe the WWI aviator Marcel Bloch

Darius Paul Dassault, neé Bloch. Code name "Chardasso" from "char d'assault" or "assault tank." General before, during (with the Resistance), and after the war
Marcel Dassault, aviation engineer and industrialist. Imprisoned at Buchenwald for refusing to build for the Nazis, who also apparently never figured out he was Jewish. Early supporter of Israel and likely the reason why the IAF suddenly had a home-built unlicensed copy of the Dassault Mirage V
Marcel Leopold Robert Bloch, WWI anti-balloon ace, which is a lot tougher than it sounds. Found him when looking up the Dassault brothers and can't find out much else about him
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LConslies.bsky.social

a 1000 times this. Courage takes many forms and he exemplified so many of them. The courage of standing up for plurality and perplexity in a world that was increasingly messing with reality was already inspirational, in addition to the courage to act upon his understanding.

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Dr Eleanor Janega
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. linktr.ee/EleanorJanega
13.8k followers713 following4.3k posts
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