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Christopher Dawson

Christopher Henry Dawson (12 October 188925 May 1970) was a British Catholic historian, independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and emphasized the necessity for Western culture to be in continuity with Christianity not to stagnate and deteriorate. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century" and was recognized as being able to expound his thought to "Catholic and Protestant, Christian and non-Christian."

The 1988–1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in Dawson's honour. Provided by Wikipedia