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Henry Hart Milman
1791–1868
An English churchman, poet, and historian, he helped bring religious history to a wider public with clear, ambitious books on Christianity and the church. He is especially remembered for major works such as History of Christianity and History of Latin Christianity.
2 Audiobooks
Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems
by Henry Hart Milman
Life of Thomas à Becket
by Henry Hart Milman
About the author
Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, Henry Hart Milman built a reputation early as a gifted scholar and writer. He became known both for his poetry and for plays such as Fazio, showing a literary range that went well beyond the pulpit.
Milman spent much of his career in the Church of England, serving as professor of poetry at Oxford and later as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Alongside his church work, he wrote large-scale histories that explored Christianity in the Roman world and the development of the medieval church.
What still makes him interesting is the way he combined literary style with serious historical ambition. Writing in the 19th century, he aimed to tell the story of Christianity in a broad, readable way, and his books remained widely discussed long after his death in 1868.