Ferdinand Lot
{{Short description|French historian and medievalist (1866–1952)}}
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Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot (Le Plessis Piquet, 20 September 1866 – Fontenay-aux-Roses, 20 July 1952[http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=1972 Ferdinand Lot at Les Sociétés Savantes]) 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.
Lot was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, part of the Institut de France, and an honorary professor at the Sorbonne.
Lot married the Russian-French medieval scholar Myrrha Lot-Borodine in 1909.{{cite web |last1=Louth |first1=Andrew|editor-first1=Andrew |editor-last1=Louth |title=Lot-Borodine, Myrrha |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199642465.001.0001/acref-9780199642465-e-4328 |website=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199642465.001.0001 |date=17 February 2022|isbn=978-0-19-964246-5 }}
Select bibliography
- [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24768/page/n7/mode/2up The End of the Ancient World and the Beginning of the Middle Ages. London: Kegan Paul, 1931. (La Fin du monde antique et le début du Moyen Age.'')]
- La France, des origines à la guerre de cent ans. (Paris: Gallimard, 1941).
- L'Art militaire et les armées au Moyen Âge (Paris, 1946).
- La Gaule, Les fondements ethniques, sociaux et politiques de la nation française. (Paris: Fayard, 1947).
Further reading
- Mahn-Lot, Marianne, "À propos des papiers inédits de Ferdinand Lot" in Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes, Volume 155, Number 1, 1977. {{in lang|fr}} (Available online at [http://www.persee.fr Persée])
- Perrin, Charles Edmond, "Ferdinand Lot, 1866–1952" in Hautes études médiévales et modernes, no. 4, 1968. {{in lang|fr}}
- {{cite book |language=fr |last=Perrin |first=Ch.-Edmond |date=1968 |title=Un Historien francais : Ferdinand Lot (1866-1952) |trans-title=A French Historian: Ferdinand Lot |publisher=Droz |pages=7 |isbn=978-2-600-03959-8 |oclc=1024491773 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sVvyXahn7mUC}}
References
External links
- {{in lang|fr}} [http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/lot_ferdinand/lot_ferdinand.html Works by Ferdinand Lot] at Les classiques des sciences sociales (UQAC)
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Category:Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Category:20th-century French historians
Category:Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Category:Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
Category:École Nationale des Chartes alumni
Category:People from Hauts-de-Seine
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