Prólogo a la edición italiana de i Re Taumaturghi de Marc Bloch.

Abstract

Ginzburg points out that in The thaumaturgic kings, Bloch increases the interests of traditional historiography by the assimilation of Durkheim's work and the influence of Vidal de la Blache. In 1914, Bloch was "bound" to historiography represented by the names of Langlois and Seignobos, both of whom he was later to refute. Nevertheless, it is within the First World War where Bloch "had rebuilt before his eyes an almost medieval society, and a corresponding mentality". The thaumaturgic kings is born in the midst of this experience.