University of Strasbourg and sitting in Marc Bloch's office.

坐在马克·布洛克的办公室里
Marc Bloch taught people like me in the way to do history.

他教给我们这些人怎么搞历史
People like me grew up on reading Marc Bloch,

我们都是读着马克的书长大的
though I assure you he was much older than me,

不过我确定他比我大多了
and he created a way of doing history called the Annales School.

他创造一种搞历史的方法叫年鉴学派
And his first book actually was called The Healing Kings,

他的第一本书叫《疗伤国王》
because in Medieval French times and Medieval English times

因为在英国和法国中世纪
when a king was crowned there was this sense

国王加冕的时候有一种说法
that if the king could cure you by touching you--

就是国王的碰触能治愈疾病
excuse me for touching you. If you had scrophula,

不好意思我得碰你一下如果你得了瘰疬
which was sort of a degenerative disease--

一种不断恶化得病
it's hard to find people who have scrophula anymore--

现在一般没人得瘰疬了