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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 267,698 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frances Yates is the 432nd most popular historian (down from 354th in 2019), the 3,702nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,414th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Historian.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Frances Yates ranks 432 out of 561. Before her are Frederic G. Kenyon, J. B. Bury, Andreas Maislinger, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Léon Gautier, and William Mitchell Ramsay. After her are Américo Castro, Daniel J. Boorstin, Michael Panaretos, Martin Noth, H. A. R. Gibb, and George Finlay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Frances Yates ranks 234. Before her are Indra Devi, Willem Jacob Luyten, John Christie, Chief Dan George, Byron Haskin, and Curtis Bernhardt. After her are Harald Tammer, Yervand Kochar, Charlotte Auerbach, James Smith McDonnell, Pat O'Brien, and Juan Arremón. Among people deceased in 1981, Frances Yates ranks 198. Before her are Curtis Bernhardt, Richard Boone, Paul Mattick, Tadeusz Baird, Álvaro Cunqueiro, and José María Minella. After her are Aníbal Ciocca, Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Roy Cochran, Wilfried Puis, Rudolf Viertl, and Jan Burgers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Yates ranks 3,702 out of 8,785. Before her are Tony Benn (1925), Michael Hirst (1952), Joseph Bramah (1748), Howard Donald (1968), Joyce Mansour (1928), and Mark Fisher (1968). After her are John Gower (1330), Freddie Francis (1917), Jason Bonham (1966), Eric Stewart (1945), Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1741), and Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Frances Yates ranks 42. Before her are Stanley Morison (1889), Thomas Fuller (1608), Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), and William Mitchell Ramsay (1851). After her are George Finlay (1799), Martin Gilbert (1936), Niall Ferguson (1964), David Marshall Lang (1924), Donald Nicol (1923), and Richard J. Evans (1947).

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