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George Gordon CoultonFBA (15 October 1858 – 4 March 1947) was a Britishhistorian, known for numerous works onmedieval history. He was known also as a keencontroversialist.^[1]

Coulton was born inKing's Lynn and educated atKing's Lynn Grammar School,Felsted School, andSt Catharine's College, Cambridge.^[2]

He taught for a short period, and was ordained in 1883. He did not however pursue a life in theChurch of England, due to the absence of vocation, and took further teaching jobs, beginning as anindependent scholar to study the history of theMiddle Ages. A fierceanti-Catholic, he was often, especially during the 1930s, embroiled in embittered journalistic controversy withHilaire Belloc, who detested him.

In 1911 Coulton found a lecturing position at theUniversity of Cambridge. He became a Fellow ofSt John's College, Cambridge in 1919, and aFellow of the British Academy in 1929.

• Father Rhine (1898) travel writing
• "The Monastic Legend: A Criticism of Abbot Gasquet'sHenry VIII and the English Monasteries" (1905), article,Medieval Studies, issue 1.
• Friar's Lantern (1906)
• Pearl. A Fourteenth-Century Poem (1906) translator
• From Saint Francis to Dante. Translations from the Chronicle of the FranciscanSalimbene (1221 - 1288) (1907)
• Chaucer and his England (1908) - Reprinted in 1993 byBracken Books.
• A Medieval Garner (1910)
• Life in the Middle Ages (1910; revised 1928 in four volumes)
• French Monasticism in 1503 (1915)
• The Main Illusions of Pacificism: a Criticism of Mr.Norman Angell and of theUnion of Democratic Control (1916)
• The Plain man's religion in the Middle Ages (1916) pamphlet
• The Case for Compulsory Military Service (1917)
• Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation (1918)
• Christ, St Francis and To-Day (1919)
• The Roman Catholic Church and the Bible. Some Historical Notes (1921) booklet
• Monasticism: Its Cause and Effects. Sketch of the Social and Intellectual Part Played By World History By the Monastic Institution
• Infant Perdition in the Middle Ages (1922)
• Papal Infallibility (1922)
• A Victorian Schoolmaster: Henry Hart of Sedbergh (1923)
• The Death Penalty for Heresy from 1164 to 1921 AD (1924)
• Roman Catholic Truth: An Open Discussion between G. G. Coulton andL. J. Walker (1924)
• The Medieval Village (1925)Medieval Village, Manor & Monastery
• Art and the Reformation (1928) also asMedieval Faith And Symbolism andFate of Medieval Art in the Renaissance & Reformation
• Miracle of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1928) editor
• The Inquisition (1929)
• Modern Faith (1929)
• The Black Death (1929)
• Crusades, Commerce and Adventure (1930)
• The Works ofLiudprand of Cremona (1930) edited withEileen Power
• Malta - And Beyond (1930) pamphlet
• Froissart and His Chronicles: The Chronicler of European Chivalry (1930)
• The Medieval Scene (1930)
• Ten Medieval Studies, with Four Appendices (1930)
• Romanism And Truth (1930, two volumes)
• In Defence of the Reformation (1931)
• Some Problems in Medieval Historiography (1932) Raleigh Lecture
• Two saints: St. Bernard & St. Francis (1932)
• Scottish Abbeys and Social Life
• The Meaning of Medieval Moneys (1934)
• Commentary on the Rule of St Augustine By Robertus Richardinus (1935) editor
• H. W. Fowler (1935)
• The Faith of St. Thomas More (1935)
• Sectarian History: A Fresh Development (1937) pamphlet
• The Scandal ofCardinal Gasquet (1937) pamphlet
• Inquisition and Liberty (1938)
• Medieval Panorama (1938, 2 volumes)
• Studies in Medieval Thought (1940)
• Europe's Apprenticeship - a Survey of Medieval Latin with Examples (1940)
• Fourscore Years: an Autobiography (1943), winner of theJames Tait Black Memorial Prize
• Is The Catholic Church Anti-Social? (1946) withArnold Lunn
• Stained Glass of the 12th and 13th Centuries from French Cathedrals (1951) withMarcel Aubert
• Five Centuries of Religion (1927-1950) in four volumes: I St. Bernard, his predecessors and successors, 1000-1200 AD, II The friars and the dead weight of tradition, 1200-1400 AD, III Getting & spending, IV The last days of medieval monachism

• Campion, Sarah (1948).Father: a Portrait of G.G. Coulton at Home. London: Michael Joseph. LCCN 49000255

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• Works by G. G. Coulton atProject Gutenberg
• Works by G. G. Coulton atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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• Guide to the George Gordon Coulton Papers 1875-1941 at theUniversity of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
• Papers/biography
• "Coulton's Cabbage".Time. 2 January 1939. Archived fromthe original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved4 February 2013.

• 1858 births
• 1947 deaths
• Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
• British medievalists
• Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
• 20th-century English historians
• Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
• Fellows of the British Academy
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients
• People educated at Felsted School
• People from King's Lynn

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