Ferdinand Lot
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title:
Ferdinand Lot
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Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot 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 Fran
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French historian and medievalist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lot
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2007-02-24T15:04:52Z
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2024-09-13T08:03:56Z
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