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Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot (Le Plessis Piquet, 20 September 1866 –Fontenay-aux-Roses, 20 July 1952^[1]) was a Frenchhistorian andmedievalist. 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 doesEdward Gibbon'sDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which had set the tone forEnlightenment scholarship in blaming the fall of classical civilization onChristianity.

Lot was a member of theAcadémie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, part of theInstitut de France, and an honorary professor at theSorbonne.

Lot married the Russian-French medieval scholarMyrrha Lot-Borodine in 1909.^[2]

• 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).

• Mahn-Lot, Marianne, "À propos des papiers inédits de Ferdinand Lot" inBibliothèque de l'école des Chartes, Volume 155, Number 1, 1977.(in French) (Available online atPersée)
• Perrin, Charles Edmond, "Ferdinand Lot, 1866–1952" inHautes études médiévales et modernes, no. 4, 1968.(in French)
• Perrin, Ch.-Edmond (1968).Un Historien francais : Ferdinand Lot (1866-1952) [A French Historian: Ferdinand Lot] (in French).Droz. p. 7.ISBN 978-2-600-03959-8.OCLC 1024491773.

• (in French)Works by Ferdinand Lot atLes classiques des sciences sociales (UQAC)

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