Edward Arthur Thompson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish historian
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Place of Birth: Waterford, Munster, Ireland
About Edward Arthur Thompson
- Edward Arthur Thompson (22 May 1914 – 1 January 1994) was an Irish-born British classicist, medievalist and professor at the University of Nottingham from 1948 to 1979.
- He wrote from a Marxist perspective, and argued that the Visigoths were settled in Aquitaine to counter the internal threat of the peasant bagaudae.
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