Thomas Hodgkin (1831–1913), nephew of the lymphoma guy, specialized in the period from the late classical era to the early medieval era.
Hodgkin was a Quaker, and he also wrote a few religious works that are notable for their rational enthusiasm.
Italy and Her Invaders. This massive history is still perhaps the best single treatment of the barbarian invasions in the West. Oxford, 1880–1899. —These copies are mostly the second edition, where there was a second edition.
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Volume I. Book I: The Visigothic Invasion.
First edition, 1880, in one part. The second edition, above, added so much more material that the volume had to be bound as two books; but both were numbered as Volume I, since the succeeding volumes were still in print.
Volume II. Book II: The Hunnish Invasion. Book III: The Vandal Invasion and the Herulian Mutiny.
First edition.
Volume III. Book IV: The Ostrogothic Invasion.
Another copy.
Volume IV. Book V. The Imperial Restoration.
First edition.
Volume V. Book VI: The Lombard Invasion.
Another copy.
Volume VI. Book VII: The Lombard Kingdom.
Another copy.
Another copy.
Volume VII. Book VIII: Frankish Invasions.
Another copy.
Volume VIII. Book IX: The Frankish Empire.
Another copy.
Charles the Great. By Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897.
The Life of Charlemagne (Charles the Great). By Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. With notes by Henry Ketcham. New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1902.
The Dynasty of Theodosius, or Eighty Years’ Struggle with the Barbarians. A series of lectures delivered to the Durham Ladies’ Educational Association by Thomas Hodgkin, Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford and Durham. Oxford, 1889.
Another copy.
The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest. By Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L., Litt.D. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906.
New impression, 1920.
Theodoric the Goth, the Barbarian Champion of Civilisation. By Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. London & New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1923 (reprint of 1891 edition).
1906 printing.
George Fox. By Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. London: Methuen & Co., 1896.
Human Progress and the Inward Light. Swarthmore Lecture, 1911. By Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. London: Headley Brothers, 1911.
The Trial of Our Faith, and other papers by Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. —“This little volume consists mainly of lectures delivered during the last forty years to my fellow-members of the Society of Friends. I have been frequently asked to publish them, and now that my lecturing days are of necessity drawing to a close, I decide to comply with that request.”