G. G. Coulton

G. G. Coulton

George Gordon Coulton (October 15, 1858March 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.

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"

References

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

External links

* [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FCoulton Papers/biography]
*cite news
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title=Coultons Cabbage
date=1939-01-02
work=Time Magazine
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760588,00.html
accessdate=2008-08-14

*worldcat id|lccn-n50-18212


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