G. G. Coulton

G. G. Coulton (1858–1947) was an English historian of the Middle Ages. Educated at Cambridge, he was ordained but lost his faith, taught in schools for many years and did not obtain a university post until he was past fifty, when he became a lecturer and fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge. His books, written for a wide public from close study of the sources, include From St. Francis to Dante, Chaucer and His England, Five Centuries of Religion, Life in the Middle Ages and Medieval Panorama. A tireless controversialist, he fought a long public battle with Catholic apologists, Hilaire Belloc among them, over the realities of medieval religious life.