Agreed. Dunno why I didn't think of Luck. Maybe add Fritz Graf. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Paul Huson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I would definitely add Lynn Thorndike, Elizabeth Butler, Georg Luck and > Daniel Walker. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Ted Hand <[log in to unmask]> > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Sent:* Thu, November 10, 2011 6:53:45 PM > *Subject:* Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] most important historian of the > past 60 years > > p.s. Peter Brown's The World of Late Antiquity got my vote. > but I'll confess that I'm biased: it's the only one on the list that I own > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Ted Hand <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Should we have our own section for historians of magic? here's my >> shortlist >> >> Ioan Couliano >> Moshe Idel >> Frances Yates >> Richard Kiekhefer >> Stuart Clark >> Carlo Ginzburg >> Antoine Faivre >> Wouter Hanegraaff >> Joscelyn Godwin >> Margot Adler >> Ronald Hutton >> Robert Anton Wilson >> >> cheers, >> Ted Hand >> http://renaissancemagic.blogspot.com >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]>wrote: >> >>> Subject: most important historian of the poast 60 years >>> >>> Could be fun >>> >>> >>> http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/11/vote-most-important-historian-and-h%0Aistory-book-past-60-years >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Caroline Tully. >>> >>> PhD Candidate >>> Centre for Classics and Archaeology >>> University of Melbourne >>> Australia >>> http://www.cca.unimelb.edu.au/ >>> >> >> >