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Sir John Harold Clapham
Sir John Harold Clapham , 1873-1946, English economic historian. He was lecturer, professor and administrator at Cambridge from 1908 to 1943. Outstanding among his many works on British economic history are An Economic History of Modern Britain (2d ed., 3 vol., 1931-38) and The Bank of England (...
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Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton , 1843-1901, British historian and churchman. He was professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge from 1884 until his appointment (1891) as bishop of Peterborough. In 1896 he was made bishop of London. He was a founder of the English Historical Review and wrote biographies of...
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Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff
Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff , 1870-1952, American historian, b. Kiev, Ukraine. He studied at the Univ. of St. Petersburg where he was professor of Latin and of Roman history from 1898 to 1918. He emigrated to the United States during the Russian Revolution, taught ancient history at the Univ. of W...
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Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 1822-88, English jurist and historian, educated at Cambridge. A pioneer in the historical and comparative study of institutions, he viewed the history of laws as the most certain way of studying the history of civilization. He drew analogies between 19th-century institu...
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André Maurois
André Maurois , 1885-1967, French biographer, novelist, and essayist. His name was originally Émile Herzog. His first work, The Silence of Colonel Bramble (1918, tr. 1920), describing British military life, was highly successful. Ariel (1923, tr. 1924), a life of Shelley, was follo...
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Sir William Francis Patrick Napier
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier 1785-1860, British general and historian; brother of Sir Charles James Napier . He served in the Peninsular War and wrote a famous and still authoritative History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vol., 1828-40).
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Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus , c.330-c.400, Roman historian, b. Antioch. After retiring from a successful military career, he wrote a history of the Roman Empire as a sequel to that of Tacitus, his model. The history, in 31 books, covered the years from AD 96 to 378; only Books XIV-XXXI, covering the years ...
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knight
knight in ancient and medieval history, a noble who did military service as a mounted warrior.
The Knight in Ancient History
In ancient history, as in Athens and Rome, the knight was a noble of the second class who in military service had to furnish his own mount and equipment. In Roman s...
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John Frederick Charles Fuller
John Frederick Charles Fuller 1878-1966, British soldier. In World War I, he recognized the importance of mechanized warfare and, as general staff officer of the tank corps, planned the stunning tank attack at Cambrai in 1917 (see tank, military ). His ideas, expressed in Tanks in the Great War ...
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Nennius
Nennius , fl. 796, Welsh writer, to whom is ascribed the Historia Britonum. He lived on the borders of Mercia and probably was a pupil of Elbod, bishop of Bangor. The Historia is a compilation containing much on the early history of Britain and the Anglo-Saxon invasions. Although some scholars t...
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