Thomas Frederick Tout

Thomas Frederick Tout ( born September 28, 1855 in London, † October 23, 1929 ) was a British medieval historian. He was a professor at the University of Manchester and founded there by James Tait (1863-1944), a historian school that laid mainly to source studies value.

Tout studied at Oxford University ( Balliol College) and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. He taught at St. Davis College, Lampeter (later the University of Wales, Lampeter ) from 1881 to 1890 and then at Owen College in Manchester, which later became the University. In Manchester, he took a research on original sources for the students in the study of history and required a final paper, which was based on it. That was not, of course, and the efforts of his friend Charles Harding Firth, introduce the same in Oxford, met with great resistance in those who had especially the formation of an administrative elite for Britain and the Empire in mind.

He focused in particular on administrative history of England in the Middle Ages. Here he is primarily known for his magnum opus Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England. He also wrote many articles for the Dictionary of National Biography.

1925 to 1929 he was president of the Royal Historical Society. He was also President of the Historical Association and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Writings

  • The History of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward III. , 1216-1377, Longmans, Green 1905, Project Gutenberg
  • With Frederick York Powell: History of England, 3 vols, London, Longmans, Green 1898 to 1900
  • The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History, Manchester University Press 1914 (Ford Lectures at Oxford 1913)
  • Edward the First, Macmillan 1893
  • France and England: their relations in the Middle Ages and Now, Manchester, 1922
  • Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England: The Wardrobe, The Chambers and the Small Seals, 6 volumes, Manchester University Press, 1920-1933, new edition Manchester University Press 1967, online
  • The empire and the papacy, 918-1273, Greenwood Press 1980
  • The captivity and death of Edward of Carnarvon, Manchester University Press and Longmans, Green 1920
  • An advanced history of Great Britain from the earliest times to 1923, Longmans, Green 1923
  • Medieval town planning, a lecture, Manchester University Press 1934
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