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Gregory is recognized as the "father of French history". [4] Richerus (fl. 10th century), monk and historian [1] Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150–1210), chronicler of the Fourth Crusade; his account of the Conquest of Constantinople is the oldest surviving historical writing in French. [5] Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400–1453), chronicler [1]
Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist; John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), Scottish historian; George Finlay (1799–1875), Greece; Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), Swedish nationalist historian; François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) – English writer and historian whose most famous work was The History of England from the Accession of James the Second John Morrill (born 1946) Seventeenth-century political and military history
The Annales school (French pronunciation:) is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history. It is named after its scholarly journal Annales.
Jules Michelet (French: [ʒyl miʃlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) [3] was a French historian and writer.He is best known for his multivolume work, Histoire de France (History of France), [4] which is considered a foundational text in modern historiography.
French and English were already the second languages of choice in Britain and France respectively. Eventually this developed into a political policy as the new united Germany was seen as a potential threat. Louis Blériot, for example, crossed the Channel in an aeroplane in 1909. Many saw this as symbolic of the connection between the two ...
The Second Crusade (1147–1150) was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 to the forces of Zengi . The county had been founded during the First Crusade (1096–1099) by the future King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1098.
The first major history was The Expansion of England (1883), by Sir John Seeley. [8] It was a bestseller for decades, and was widely admired by the imperialistic faction in British politics, and opposed by the anti-imperialists of the Liberal Party. The book points out how and why Britain gained the colonies, the character of the Empire, and ...