Geoffrey Barraclough

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Geoffrey Barraclough (May 10, 1908 – December 26, 1984) was a British historian, known as a medievalist and historian of Germany. He was Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1970–73.

Other positions were Professor of Medieval History, University of Liverpool, 1945–1956, Stevenson Research Professor, University of London, 1956–1962, and Professor of History, Brandeis University, 1968–1970, and also 1972–1981

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  • Public Notaries and the Papal Curia (1934)
  • Papal Provisions: Aspects of Church History Constitutional, Legal and Administrative in the Later Middle Ages (1935)
  • Factors in German History (1946)
  • Origins of Modern Germany (1947)
  • Mediaeval Germany 911 - 1250 (1948) essays by German historians, translator
  • Crown, Community and Parliament in the Later Middle Ages: Studies in English Constitutional History by Gaillard T. Lapsley (1951) editor with Helen M. Cam
  • History in a Changing World (1955)
  • Survey of International Affairs, 1955-1956 (1960) with Rachel F. Wall
  • Social Life in Early England (1960)
  • Survey of International Affairs, 1956-1958 (1962)
  • European Unity in Thought and Action (1963) Vogelenzang Lecture
  • Survey of International Affairs, 1959-1960 (1964)
  • An Introduction to Contemporary History (1964)
  • The Mediaeval Empire - Idea and Reality (1964)
  • The Historical Association, 1906-1966 (1967) Presidential Address
  • The Medieval Papacy (1968)
  • Eastern and Western Europe in the Middle Ages (1970)
  • The Crucible of Europe: the Ninth and Tenth Centuries In European History (1976) later as The Crucible of the Middle Ages
  • The Times Atlas of World History (1978)
  • Main Trends in History (1978)
  • The Turning Points in World History (1979)
  • The Christian World: A Social and Cultural History of Christianity (1981)
  • The Times Concise Atlas of World History (1982)
  • From Agadir to Armageddon: Anatomy of a Crisis (1982)
  • Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c.1071-1237 (1988)
  • Atlas of World History (1989) with Norman Stone, and later editions and atlases
  • The Times History of the World (2001) with Richard Overy

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