swap_horiz Jacques Le Goff 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

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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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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel was a prominent 20th-century French historian known for his work on long-term historical processes. He d...

French Mediterranean 20TH Century Economic

9.2 Excellent

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Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg is a prominent Italian historian specializing in the early modern period. He pioneered microhistory, exam...

Italian Cultural 20TH Century Early Modern

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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Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis was a Canadian-American historian whose work focused on social and cultural life in early modern Eur...

American Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Lucien Febvre

Lucien Febvre was a French historian who helped establish the Annales approach to history. In 1929 he co-founded the jou...

French Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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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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Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian known for research on eighteenth-century France, the Enlightenment, and...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.8 Great

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Joan Wallach Scott

Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian whose work has linked gender history with social, political, and intellectua...

French American 20TH Century Theoretical

8.8 Great

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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was a French historian associated with the Annales School, whose work combined social history wi...

French Social 20TH Century Peasant

8.7 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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Pierre Nora

Pierre Nora is a French historian whose work examines national identity, historical consciousness, and collective memory...

French Contemporary Cultural Memory

8.6 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

8.5 Great

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Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian whose scholarship examines race, slavery, politics, gender, and society in t...

African American American Cultural 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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David Lowenthal

David Lowenthal was an American-born geographer and historian whose research examined heritage, collective memory, lands...

American Heritage Cultural 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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Eugen Weber

Eugen Weber (1925-2007) was a Romanian-born historian who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he...

French 19TH Century 20TH Century Rural

8.5 Great

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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is an American historian whose scholarship examines the French Revolution, political culture, gender, and the...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.4 Great

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George Mosse

George Mosse was a German-born American historian who taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studied modern E...

Cultural 20TH Century Nazi Germany German American

8.4 Great

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Serge Gruzinski

Serge Gruzinski is a French historian associated with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the French Na...

French Contemporary Cultural Mexican

8.3 Great