Kenneth Setton
| Kenneth Meyer Setton | |
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Kenneth M. Setton. Book jacket photo from Variorum reprint of The Papacy in the Levant
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| Born |
June 17, 1914 New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | February 18, 1995 (aged 80) Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | historian |
| Known for | expert on the history of medieval Europe |
Kenneth Meyer Setton (New Bedford, Massachusetts, June 17, 1914 – Princeton, New Jersey, February 18, 1995) was an American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe, particularly the Crusades.
Setton's childhood and adolescence were not easy. He supported himself from the age of 13. Setton received his bachelor's degree in 1936 as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University. He received his masters degree in 1938 and PhD in 1941 at Columbia University. His dissertation Christian Attitude Toward the Emperor in the Fourth Century was written under the direction of Lynn Thorndike. He also received honorary degrees from Boston University and the University of Kiel. He claimed that knowledge of languages is the basis of knowledge of historical science, and he spoke Italian, French, German and Catalan, besides his favorites, Latin and classical Greek.
Kenneth Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work, the four-volume The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. For the first two published volumes he received the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America in 1980.
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