swap_horiz Anna Komnene Alternatives

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Herodotus

Writing in the fifth century BC, Herodotus gave the Greco-Persian Wars a setting that extended far beyond the battlefiel...

Classical Narrative Ancient Greek

9.20 Excellent

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Thucydides

The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta forms the subject of Thucydides' history, a Greek account concerned with...

Classical Political Ancient Greek

9.20 Excellent

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Tacitus

Tacitus wrote Roman history with a sharp interest in the relationship between imperial power and public freedom. His Ann...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

9.20 Excellent

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun was a 14th-century North African scholar and one of history’s earliest social scientists. His *Muqaddimah* o...

Medieval North African Islamic Sociological

9.20 Excellent

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Alexis de Tocqueville

A French diplomat, historian and political thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville examined American democracy in the nineteenth...

French American 19TH Century Political

9.20 Excellent

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

9.20 Excellent

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Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian renowned for his anthropological approach to studying medieval culture. His seminal...

Cultural 20TH Century Medieval Dutch

9.20 Excellent

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Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a twentieth-century French historian whose work helped establish the Annales school of historical study....

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.20 Excellent

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a leading American historian specializing in the Reconstruction era and the history of slavery. His work s...

American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

9.20 Excellent

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Robert Caro

Robert Caro is a prominent American historian specializing in twentieth-century political biographies. His meticulous re...

American 20TH Century Power Political

9.20 Excellent

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Henri Pirenne

Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian whose work examined medieval economic, urban, and social history. His best-known a...

20TH Century Medieval Urban Belgian

9.05 Excellent

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Bede

Bede, commonly called the Venerable Bede, was an English monk, scholar, and historian who lived at the monasteries of We...

Medieval Early Medieval British Religious

8.95 Great

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Tony Judt

Tony Judt was a British-American historian whose research and writing addressed modern European political and intellectu...

European 20TH Century Political British American

8.95 Great

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Chris Wickham

Chris Wickham is a British medieval historian whose research examines Europe and the Mediterranean after the Roman Empir...

Contemporary Social Medieval Early Medieval

8.90 Great

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Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian, diplomat, and political thinker of the Renaissance. His major work, Sto...

Italian Narrative Renaissance Political

8.55 Great

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Henry Adams

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an American historian, writer, and political thinker from a prominent Massachusetts family....

American 19TH Century Cultural Medieval

8.45 Great

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Procopius

Procopius was a sixth-century Byzantine historian who served as secretary and adviser to the general Belisarius during t...

Military Classical Medieval Byzantine

8.35 Great

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay was a British historian, essayist, poet, and Whig politician. His "History of England from the...

Narrative 19TH Century British Political

8.25 Great

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Gregory of Tours

Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman bishop and historian who lived in the sixth century and became bishop of Tours in 573...

Narrative Medieval Early Medieval Frankish

7.45 Good

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George Bancroft

George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian, Democratic politician, diplomat, and statesman. His principal his...

Narrative American 19TH Century Political

7.15 Good