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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

9.2 Excellent

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon was a prominent British historian best known for *The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*...

British Roman Early Modern Enlightenment

9.2 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

9.2 Excellent

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Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a prominent French historian of the 20th century. He is best known for his foundational work in Annales S...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.2 Excellent

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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is a prominent British historian specializing in early modern political thought. His work focuses on the...

Intellectual 20TH Century British Early Modern

9.2 Excellent

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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is a prominent British historian specializing in Nazi Germany and twentieth-century warfare. His work focuse...

Contemporary British Biography Nazi Germany

9.2 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

9.1 Excellent

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Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is a prominent British historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe and Nazi Germany. His work si...

Contemporary Historiography British Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales School and with the École des hautes études...

French Cultural 20TH Century Medieval

8.9 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

8.9 Great

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Keith Thomas

Sir Keith Thomas is a Welsh historian of early modern England whose work combines social, cultural, and intellectual his...

Social Cultural 20TH Century British

8.8 Great

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John H. Elliott

John H. Elliott was a British historian of early modern Europe, with particular attention to Spain, the Spanish monarchy...

20TH Century Comparative British Early Modern

8.8 Great

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Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is a British economic historian who writes about modern Europe, Germany, and global financial crises. His 200...

Contemporary British Nazi Germany Economic

8.8 Great

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E.H. Carr

E.H. Carr was a British historian, diplomat, journalist, and theorist of international relations. His 1961 book What Is...

20TH Century British Soviet Diplomatic

8.7 Great

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard is a British classicist and historian of ancient Rome. Her 2015 book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome presents...

Classical Contemporary Public British

8.7 Great

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Caroline Walker Bynum

Caroline Walker Bynum is an American historian of medieval Christianity whose work examines religious practice, bodily s...

American Contemporary Medieval Religious

8.7 Great

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Robert Bartlett

Robert Bartlett is a British medieval historian whose research concerns European society, religious change, political ex...

Contemporary Social Medieval British

8.6 Great

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Hugh Kennedy

Hugh Kennedy is a British historian of the medieval Islamic world, specializing in the early caliphates, the political h...

Contemporary Early Medieval British Islamic

8.5 Great

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Patrick Geary

Patrick Geary is an American medieval historian whose research examines early medieval Europe, collective memory, ethnic...

American Contemporary Medieval Early Medieval

8.4 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

7.5 Good