Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot (Le Plessis Piquet, 20 September 1866 – Fontenay-aux-Roses, 20 July 1952[1]) 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.

Ferdinand Lot

Lot was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, part of the Institut de France, and an honorary professor at the Sorbonne.

Lot married the Russian-French medieval scholar Myrrha Lot-Borodine in 1909.[2]

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  • Mahn-Lot, Marianne, "À propos des papiers inédits de Ferdinand Lot" in Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes, Volume 155, Number 1, 1977. (in French) (Available online at Persée)
  • Perrin, Charles Edmond, "Ferdinand Lot, 1866–1952" in Hautes études médiévales et modernes, no. 4, 1968. (in French)
  • Perrin, Ch.-Edmond (1968). Un Historien francais : Ferdinand Lot (1866-1952) [A French Historian: Ferdinand Lot] (in French). Droz. p. 7. ISBN 978-2-600-03959-8. OCLC 1024491773.

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  1. ^ Ferdinand Lot at Les Sociétés Savantes
  2. ^ Louth, Andrew (17 February 2022). Louth, Andrew (ed.). "Lot-Borodine, Myrrha". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199642465.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-964246-5.
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