author
Thomas Hodgkin
1831–1913
A pioneering historian of the early Middle Ages, he brought wide-ranging scholarship and a vivid sense of drama to the study of post-Roman Europe. His landmark eight-volume work, Italy and Her Invaders, remains his defining achievement.
4 Audiobooks
Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
by Thomas Hodgkin
The Life of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
by Thomas Hodgkin
The history of England, from the earliest times to the Norman Conquest
by Thomas Hodgkin
About the author
Born in London on July 29, 1831, Thomas Hodgkin was a British historian, biographer, banker, and Quaker minister. Although he continued working in banking, he devoted much of his life to historical research and became a leading authority on the early Middle Ages.
His best-known work, Italy and Her Invaders, was published in eight volumes between 1879 and 1899. He also wrote Theodoric the Goth and other studies of medieval Europe, earning a reputation for making complex political and cultural changes accessible to a broad readership. He died on March 2, 1913.