swap_horiz Ibn Khaldun Alternatives

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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

2

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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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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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

9.0 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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Marshall Hodgson

Marshall G. S. Hodgson was an American historian of Islam and world history at the University of Chicago. His three-volu...

American 20TH Century Islamic World History

8.9 Great

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William McNeill

William H. McNeill was a Canadian-American historian known for writing large-scale histories of interactions among socie...

American 20TH Century Comparative Disease

8.8 Great

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Alfred Crosby

Alfred W. Crosby was an American historian whose work examined how biological and ecological processes shaped world hist...

American Environmental 20TH Century World History

8.8 Great

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Georges Duby

Georges Duby was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales school of historical writing. His research exam...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

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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Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy is a British historian whose work examines international relations, military strategy, and the long-term co...

Contemporary Strategic Diplomatic British American

8.6 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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Ira Lapidus

Ira M. Lapidus was an American historian of the Islamic world and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley....

American Social 20TH Century Urban

8.6 Great

15

Henry Adams

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

American 19TH Century Cultural Medieval

8.5 Great

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Janet Abu-Lughod

Janet Abu-Lughod (1928-2003) was an American sociologist and urban historian whose research connected city development w...

American 20TH Century Urban Islamic

8.5 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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J.R. McNeill

J.R. McNeill is an American environmental historian whose work studies the interaction between ecological change and hum...

American Contemporary Environmental Atlantic

8.5 Great

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Ross Dunn

Ross E. Dunn is an American historian known for his work in world history education and the history of the medieval Isla...

American Contemporary Islamic World History

8.0 Great

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Philip Khuri Hitti

Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978) was a Lebanese-American historian and Arabist who taught and researched the history, lang...

20TH Century Medieval Islamic Arab

7.8 Good