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British historian (1863–1945)
Andrew George Little
FBA (28 September 1863 – 22 October 1945) was an English historian, specialising in the
Franciscans (known as the Greyfriars) in medieval England. He was Professor of History at the
University College of South Wales ,
Cardiff , between 1898 and 1901 (having previously been the college's first history lecturer there since 1892). He was thereafter a visiting lecturer (1903–20) and then
reader (1920–32) in
palaeography at the
University of Manchester . He was president of the
Historical Association from 1926 to 1929, and was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy in 1922.
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Select publications
For a full bibliography down to 1938, see An address presented to Andrew George Little, with a bibliography of his writings (1938). His books included:
The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford:
Clarendon Press for the
Oxford Historical Society , 1892).
Mediaeval Wales, Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (London:
T. Fisher Unwin , 1902).
Initia Operum Latinorum quae Saeculis XIII., XIV., XV. Attribuuntur (Manchester:
Manchester University Press , 1904).
Edition of
Thomas of Eccleston ,
Tractatus de adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam (Manchester:
Manchester University Press , 1909).
Studies in English Franciscan History (Manchester:
Manchester University Press , 1917) – based on the
Ford Lectures he gave at the
University of Oxford in 1916
(Edited based on material by
Paul Sabatier ) Speculum Perfectionis , 2 vols. (Manchester:
British Society for Franciscan Studies , 1928–31).
(Co-authored with Father
Franz Pelster ) Oxford Theology and Theologians, c. a.d. 1282–1302 (Oxford: Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society, 1934)
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