G. G. Coulton

George Gordon Coulton (15 October 1858 – 4 March 1947) was a British historian, known for numerous works on medieval history. He was known also as a keen controversialist.

Coulton was born in King's Lynn and educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, Felsted School, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

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

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

Works

 * Father Rhine (1898) travel writing
 * "The Monastic Legend: A Criticism of Abbot Gasquet's Henry 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 Franciscan Salimbene (1221 - 1288) (1907)
 * Chaucer and his England (1908) - Reprinted in 1993 by Bracken 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 the Union 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 and L. J. Walker (1924)
 * The Medieval Village (1925) Medieval Village, Manor & Monastery
 * Art and the Reformation (1928) also as Medieval Faith And Symbolism and Fate 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 of Liudprand of Cremona (1930) edited with Eileen 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 of Cardinal 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 the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
 * Is The Catholic Church Anti-Social? (1946) with Arnold Lunn
 * Stained Glass of the 12th and 13th Centuries from French Cathedrals (1951) with Marcel 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