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Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry) (1880–1962), a British economic historian. His best-known work is Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926). See more »

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Las Casas, Bartolome de

Las Casas, Bartolom de (1474–1566), a Spanish missionary in Latin America.

Madame de Sevigne

Sévigné, Madame de (1626–1696), a French noblewoman noted for the letters she wrote to members of her family and to friends.

Matthew Parker

Parker, Matthew (1504–1575), an English church prelate. Parker graduated from Cambridge University in 1525 and was ordained a priest in 1527.

Nennius

Nennius, a Welsh historian of the late eighth century. He generally is creditied with writing Historia Britonum, which may be a revision of a work taken from several sources.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli Niccolò (1469–1527), an Italian statesman and writer. He is known chiefly for the political philosophy expressed in his book The Prince.

Oswald Spengler

Spengler, Oswald (1880–1936), a German philosopher and historian. His The Decline of the West (1918–22) is a broad, sweeping interpretation of the rise and decline of cultures.

Petrarch

Petrarch, (Italian: Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374), an Italian poet and scholar.

Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix

Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de (1682–1761), a French Jesuit traveler and historian.

Procopius

Procopius, (499?–565? A.D.), a Byzantine historian. He is the main chronicler of the reign of Emperor Justinian (527–65).

R.H. Tawney

Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry) (1880–1962), a British economic historian. His best-known work is Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926).

Raphael Holinshed

Holinshed, Raphael (?–1580?), an English chronicler. Early in the reign of Elizabeth I he began work with Reginald Wolfe, a printer who was compiling a history of the world.

Richard Hakluyt

Hakluyt, Richard (1552?–1616), an English geographer, historian, and clergyman.

Saint Bede

Bede, Beda, or Baeda, Saint (672 or 673–735), an English scholar, called "the Venerable Bede." He was probably the most learned man of his day.

Schlegel, the family name of two German critics and writers who were brothers. Leaders of the Romantic movement in German literature, they founded and edited Athenaeum (1798–1800), the journal of the Romantic school of German writers.

Sir Flinders Petrie

Petrie, Sir (William Matthew) Flinders (1853–1942), an English archeologist and Egyptologist.

Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1178?–1241), an Icelandic statesman, poet, and historian. He was a leading author of medieval Norse literature.

Standish O'Grady

O'Grady, Standish (James) (1846–1928), an Irish historian and man of letters. His History of Ireland (2 volumes, 1878–80), emphasizing legends and tales of ancient Ireland, inspired William Butler Yeats and other poets of the Irish, or Celtic, renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.