Norman Cohn [SEP] place of death
was formally set up as a research project at the University of Sussex and Cohn was appointed a professorial fellow. From 1973 to 1980, Cohn was Astor-Wolfson Professor at Sussex.
Norman Cohn died on 31 July 2007, in Cambridge, England, at the age of 92, from a degenerative heart condition.
Career.
Cohn's work as a historian focused on the problem of the roots of that persecutorial fanaticism which became resurgent in modern Europe at a time when industrial progress and the spread of democracy had
, but only a fragment survives. St Boniface also wrote about him, and left the largest extant record of him.
References.
- Jeffrey B. Russell, "Saint Boniface and the Eccentrics". "Church History". Vol. 33, No. 3, Sep., 1964
- Lewis Spence, "The Encyclopedia of the Occult", reprinted 1988
- "Imposters", from the "Catholic Encyclopedia", 1913
- Norman Cohn, "The Pursuit of the Millennium", 1957