G. G. Coulton

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George Gordon Coulton (October 15, 1858 – March 4, 1947) was a British historian, known for numerous works on medieval history. He was known also as a keen controversialist.

He was born in King's Lynn. He was educated at Lynn Grammar School, and Felsted School, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

He taught for a short period, and was ordained in 1883. He did not however pursue that course in the Church of England, in the absence of a vocation. He took further teaching jobs, and began as an independent scholar to study the history of the Middle Ages. A fierce anti-Catholic, he was often, especially during the 1930s, embroiled in embittered journalistic controversy with Hilaire Belloc, who detested him.

In 1911 Coulton found a lecturing position at the University of Cambridge. He became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 1919, a Fellow of the British Academy in 1929.

[edit] Works

  • Father Rhine (1898) travel writing
  • Friar's Lantern (1906)
  • Pearl. A Fourteenth-Century Poem (1906) translator
  • From Saint Francis to Dante. Translations from the Chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene (1221 - 1288) (1907)
  • Chaucer and his England (1908)
  • A Medieval Garner (1910)
  • French Monasticism in 1503 (1915)
  • The Main Illusions of Pacificism: a Criticism of Mr. Norman Angell and of the Union of Democratic Control (1916)
  • The Plain man's religion in the Middle Ages (1916) pamphlet
  • The Case for Compulsory Military Service (1917)
  • Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation (1918)
  • Christ, St Francis and To-Day (1919)
  • The Roman Catholic Church and the Bible. Some Historical Notes (1921) booklet
  • Monasticism: Its Cause and Effects. Sketch of the Social and Intellectual Part Played By World History By the Monastic Institution
  • Infant Perdition in the Middle Ages (1922)
  • Papal Infallibility (1922)
  • A Victorian Schoolmaster: Henry Hart of Sedbergh (1923)
  • The Death Penalty for Heresy from 1164 to 1921 AD (1924)
  • Roman Catholic Truth: An Open Discussion between G. G. Coulton and L. J. Walker (1924)
  • The Medieval Village (1925) Medieval Village, Manor & Monastery
  • Art and the Reformation (1928) also as Medieval Faith And Symbolism and Fate of Medieval Art in the Renaissance & Reformation
  • Life in the Middle Ages (1928, four volumes)
  • Miracle of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1928) editor
  • The Inquisition (1929)
  • Modern Faith (1929)
  • The Black Death (1929)
  • Crusades, Commerce and Adventure (1930)
  • The Works of Liudprand of Cremona (1930) edited with Eileen Power
  • Malta - And Beyond (1930) pamphlet
  • Froissart and His Chronicles: The Chronicler of European Chivalry (1930)
  • The Medieval Scene (1930)
  • Romanism And Truth (1930, two volumes)
  • In Defence Of The Reformation (1931)
  • Some Problems in Medieval Historiography (1932) Raleigh Lecture
  • Two saints: St. Bernard & St. Francis (1932)
  • Scottish Abbeys and Social Life
  • The Meaning of Medieval Moneys (1934)
  • Commentary on the Rule Of St Augustine By Robertus Richardinus (1935) editor
  • H. W. Fowler (1935)
  • The Faith of St. Thomas More (1935)
  • Sectarian History: A Fresh Development (1937) pamphlet
  • The Scandal of Cardinal Gasquet (1937) pamphlet
  • Inquisition and Liberty (1938)
  • Medieval Panorama (1938, 2 volumes)
  • Studies in Medieval Thought (1940)
  • Europe's Apprenticeship - a Survey of Medieval Latin with Examples (1940)
  • Fourscore Years (1943) autobiography, James Tait Black Memorial Prize
  • Is The Catholic Church Anti-Social? (1946) with Arnold Lunn
  • Stained Glass of the 12th and 13th Centuries from French Cathedrals (1951) with Marcel Aubert
  • Five Centuries of Religion (1927-1950) in four volumes: I St. Bernard, his predecessors and successors, 1000-1200 AD, II The friars and the dead weight of tradition, 1200-1400 AD, III Getting & spending, IV The last days of medieval monachism
  • Medieval Studies, Eleven Medieval Studies

[edit] References

  • Sarah Campion (1948) Father, a Portrait of G.G. Coulton at Home

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