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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Meyer Setton was an American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe, particularly the Crusades. Early life, education and awards Setton's childhood and adolescence were not easy. He supported himself from the age of 13. Setton received his bachelor's degree in 1936 as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University. He received his master's degree in 1938 and PhD in 1941 at Columbia University. His dissertation Christian Attitude Toward the Emperor in the Fourth Century was written under the direction of Lynn Thorndike. He also received honorary degrees from Boston University and the University of Kiel. He claimed that knowledge of languages is the basis of knowledge of historical science, and he spoke Italian, French, German and Catalan, besides his favorites, Latin and classical Greek.

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The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 (1976) (100)
Christian attitude towards the emperor in the fourth century : especially as shown in addresses to the emperor (1941) (77)
A History of the Crusades (1955) (50)
Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century (1991) (33)
Western hostility to Islam and prophecies of Turkish doom (1992) (28)
The Bulgars in the Balkans and the Occupation of Corinth in the Seventh Century (1950) (17)
On the Importance of Land Tenure and Agrarian Taxation in the Byzantine Empire, from the Fourth Century to the Fourth Crusade (1953) (14)
XIX. THE TURKS IN IRAN AND ANATOLIA BEFORE THE MONGOL INVASIONS (1962) (13)
Lutheranism and the turkish peril (1962) (13)
VI. THE LATIN EMPIRE OF CONSTANTINOPLE, 1204-1261 (1962) (13)
XVIII. THE KINGDOM OF CILICIAN ARMENIA (1962) (10)
II. THE THIRD CRUSADE: RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED AND PHILIP AUGUSTUS (1962) (9)
A History of the Crusades, I, The First Hundred Years (1957) (7)
The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). Vol. III: The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III (1984) (6)
V. THE FOURTH CRUSADE (1962) (6)
A History of the Crusades, Volume 2: The Later Crusades, 1189-1311 (1962) (6)
On the Raids of the Moslems in the Aegean in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries and Their Alleged Occupation of Athens (1954) (6)
The Emperor Constans II and the Capture of Corinth by the Onogur Bulgars (1952) (6)
I. THE NORMAN KINGDOM OF SICILY AND THE CRUSADES (1962) (5)
Saint George's Head (1973) (5)
The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). Volume 2, The Fifteenth Century (1979) (5)
Athens in the Later Twelfth Century (1944) (5)
XIII. THE CRUSADE OF THEOBALD OF CHAMPAGNE AND RICHARD OF CORNWALL, 1239-1241 (1962) (5)
III. The Crusades of Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI (1962) (4)
Europe and the Levant in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1974) (4)
XVI. The Career of Nür-ad-Dïn (1958) (4)
X. The First Crusade: Antioch to Ascalon (1958) (4)
A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Hundred Years (1958) (4)
Catalan domination of Athens, 1311-1388 (1950) (4)
XIV. Zengi and the Fall of Edessa (1958) (3)
III. The Caliphate and the Arab States (1958) (3)
D. The Pilgrimages to Palestine before 1095 (1958) (3)
"The Emperor John VIII Slept Here..." (1958) (3)
XX. THE AIYÜBIDS (1962) (3)
A History of the Crusades@@@The First Hundred Years (1956) (3)
XIX. The Decline and Fall of Jerusalem, 1174-1189 (1958) (2)
The Renaissance : maker of modern man (1970) (2)
A Note on Michael Choniates, Archbishop of Athens (1182-1204) (1946) (2)
A History of the Crusades. Vol. II: The Later Crusades (1189-1311) (1964) (2)
900 years ago: the Norman Conquest (1966) (2)
The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). Volume I, The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (1978) (2)
VII. THE PRANKISH STATES IN GREECE, 1204-1311 (1962) (2)
XIII. The Growth of the Latin States, 1118-1144 (1958) (2)
VIII. THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE (1962) (2)
Great problems in European civilization (1955) (2)
VII. The Councils of Piacenza and Clermont (1958) (2)
Some Recent Views of the Italian Renaissance (1947) (1)
The Pennsylvania History of the Crusades (1951) (1)
X. THE POLITICAL CRUSADES OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY (1962) (1)
Select List of Abbreviations (1958) (1)
IV. BYZANTIUM AND THE CRUSADES, 1081-1204 (1962) (1)
Catalan Domination of Athens 1311-1388 (1950) (1)
XVIII. The Rise of Saladin, 1169-1189 (1958) (1)
I. Western Europe on the Eve of the Crusades (1958) (1)
В. The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095 (1958) (1)
Athens in the Middle Ages (1975) (1)
XVII. The Latin States under Baldwin III and Amalric I, 1143-1174 (1958) (1)
XII. The Foundation of the Latin States, 1099-1118 (1958) (1)
Archbishop Pierre d'Ameil in Naples and the Affair of Aimon III of Geneva (1363-1364) (1953) (1)
IX. The First Crusade: Constantinople to Antioch (1958) (1)
List of Important Dates and Events (1958) (0)
VIII. Imperial Images (1941) (0)
A. The Reconquest of Spain before 1095 (1958) (0)
The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. Volume 3, The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III; volume 4, The Sixteenth Century from Julius III to Pius V (1986) (0)
Abbreviations and Abridged Titles (1941) (0)
Memorirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1958) (0)
II. Eusebius and Constantine the Great (1941) (0)
XI. The Crusade of 1101 (1958) (0)
Greece since the Second World War : on te occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Truman Doctrine. The Symposium (1967) (0)
The Age of chivalry (1969) (0)
XII. The Crusade of Frederick II (1962) (0)
XVII. THE KINGDOM OF CYPRUS, 1191-1291 (1962) (0)
IV. The Ismä'Ilites and the Assassins (1958) (0)
Gazetteer and Note on Maps (1958) (0)
XI. THE FIFTH CRUSADE (1962) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1971) (0)
Interesting Throughout: Great Problems in European Civilization (1955) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1971) (0)
XXI. THE MONGOLS AND THE NEAR EAST (1962) (0)
The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Vol. 3 (1976) (0)
VI. The Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century (1958) (0)
XIV. THE CRUSADES OF LOUIS IX (1962) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1979) (0)
A History of the Crusades. Volume II, The Later Crusades, 1189-13 (1963) (0)
A Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature (1958) (0)
Map I Western Europe and the Mediterranean (1958) (0)
New look at Medieval Europe (1962) (0)
IX. THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE (1962) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1966) (0)
XV. THE CRUSADER STATES, 1192-1243 (1962) (0)
XXII. THE MAMLUK SULTANS TO 1293 (1962) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1987) (0)
IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS (1962) (0)
IV. Arian Deference and Athanasian Opposition (1941) (0)
VIII. The First Crusade: Clermont to Constantinople (1958) (0)
V. The Turkish Invasion: The Selchiikids (1958) (0)
XV. The Second Crusade (1958) (0)
C. The Norman Conquest of Sicily (1958) (0)
Map 1 Central Europe and the Mediterranean (1962) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1986) (0)
WALTER ULLMAN. Principles of Govern ment and Politics in the Middle Ages. Pp. 320. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961. $6.00 (1962) (0)
The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. C. W. Previté-Orton (1954) (0)
XVI. THE CRUSADER STATES, 1243-1291 (1962) (0)

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