Charles Homer Haskins

Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937) was America’s premier historian of the Middle-Ages.  A child prodigy, he mastered Latin and Greek as a boy and received his Ph.D. in history at the age of twenty.  He advised his friend President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.  His best known work is The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1927).