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Methodologically, Montaillu is still important. Also, Le Roy Ladurie pioneered the history of climate, which Michael McCormick has taken up (he still assigns Ladurie in his graduate seminars). Why Chester Jordan though? He does not seem to have done anything particularly significant. As for Peter Brown, his most significant work covers the same timespan as Chris Wickham's Framing...., so I think it is a bit arbitrary to include the latter but not the former.

Other forums do these things, so I thought it would be fun. Most influential (western) medieval historians, in no particular order: 1) Peter Brown (I am counting him as a medievalist, or at least someone whose work on the Middle Ages was fundamental) 2) Chirs Whickham 3) Rosamond McKitterick 4) Caroline Walker Bynum 5) Michael McCormick 6) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 7) Giles Constable ? Robert Bartlett 9) Patrick Geary 10) Barbara Rosenwein

Thanks for the response! Are you currently at Columbia? If so, may I send you a private message?

Hello all, I am a first-year PhD student in Comparative Literature at a top 5 Ivy League university. Having taken two graduate course on History -and having done a lot of research on my own- I have become more and more convinced that I would rather do history than comparative literature. However, I am unsure how easy it will be to change PhD programs. Do you know of successful cases of people who have changed from one department to the other in the humanities? Ideally, I would want to remain in the same university as I am now, provided of course that the history department accepts me. Linguistic skills are not a problem, and I also took a couple of history courses as an undergraduate with professors that would be happy to write for me! Any help would be appreciated!