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Ferdinand Lot

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French historian and medievalist (1866-1952)

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Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot was a French historian and medievalist. His masterpiece, The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages (1927), presents an alternative account of the fall of the Roman Empire than does Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which had set the tone for...

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1952Commander of the Legion of Honour
1939Osiris prize
1937Officer of the Legion of Honour
1926Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
1921Knight of the Legion of Honour
1919prix Gobert
1904prix Gobert

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Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot was a French historian and medievalist. His masterpiece, The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages (1927), presents an alternative account of the fall of the Roman Empire than does Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which had set the tone for Enlightenment scholarship in blaming the fall of classical civilization on Christianity.

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France
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1866 to 1952 · aged 85
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14 languages

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