Coulton, George Gordon (1858–1947)

English historian. He became a lecturer at Cambridge University in 1919. His major works are Five Centuries of Religion 1923–50, The Medieval Village 1925, Art and the Reformation 1928, and The Medieval Panorama 1938.

Coulton was a schoolteacher and freelance lecturer until he took up his post at Cambridge. He had a very wide knowledge of all aspects of medieval life, art, and architecture, although ecclesiastical history was his special area. He enjoyed controversial debate, particularly with Roman Catholic historians and writers, and his disputes with the writers G K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc and the Benedictine Francis Gasquet are notorious.