author
A. G. (Andrew George) Little
1863–1945
A leading medieval historian of his day, he devoted much of his work to the Franciscans, or Greyfriars, in England. His books helped bring the records and daily world of medieval religious life into clearer view for later readers.
2 Audiobooks
The Grey Friars in Oxford
by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures
by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
About the author
Born in 1863, he became an English historian best known for his research on the Franciscans in medieval England. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, and went on to build a career around the close reading of medieval sources, especially those connected with the Greyfriars.
He taught history at University College of South Wales, Cardiff, and later worked at the University of Manchester as a reader in palaeography. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, a sign of the respect his scholarship earned among other historians.
His writing is remembered for careful, patient work on medieval religious history. Alongside his own books, he also helped shape the field more broadly through the British Society of Franciscan Studies, which supported and published research in the area.