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Frances Yates

1899 - 1981

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Dame Frances Amelia Yates (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) was an English historian of the Renaissance, who wrote books on the history of esotericism. After attaining an MA in French at University College London, she began to publish her research in scholarly journals and academic books, focusing on 16th-century theatre and the life of the linguist and lexicographer John Florio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Yates has received more than 248,824 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frances Yates is the 354th most popular historian (down from 279th in 2019), the 3,422nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,103rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Historian.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

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  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Frances Yates ranks 354 out of 339. Before her are Henri Grégoire, Alain Daniélou, Cyril Toumanoff, David Marshall Lang, Heinrich Ewald, and Taner Akçam. After her are Boris Rybakov, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Patricia Crone, Peter Gay, Mikhail Artamonov, and Clifford Edmund Bosworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Frances Yates ranks 207. Before her are Charlotte Auerbach, Curtis Bernhardt, Ralf Törngren, Harold Osborn, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, and Elizabeth Bowen. After her are Colleen Moore, Louise Nevelson, Willem Jacob Luyten, Chief Dan George, Byron Haskin, and Axel Bakunts. Among people deceased in 1981, Frances Yates ranks 162. Before her are Bob Hite, Rino Gaetano, János Pilinszky, Mikhail Zharov, Leonard Howell, and Curtis Bernhardt. After her are Jan Burgers, Sven Andersson, Esteban Canal, Chief Dan George, J. L. Mackie, and Stanisław Mazur.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Yates ranks 3,422 out of 7,765. Before her are Ian Hunter (1939), Johnny Haynes (1934), Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880), Ireen Sheer (1949), Lisa Stansfield (1966), and Joseph Noel Paton (1821). After her are John Mayhew (1947), Sam Riley (1980), Roy Thomas Baker (1946), James Prinsep (1799), Brian Lumley (1937), and Al Pease (1921).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Frances Yates ranks 34. Before her are Paul Kennedy (1945), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), Thomas Fuller (1608), and David Marshall Lang (1924). After her are Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Martin Gilbert (1936), Niall Ferguson (1964), Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938), and William Robertson (1721).

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