Norman Cohn  

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Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA (12 January 1915 – 31 July 2007) was a British academic, historian and writer who spent fourteen years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex. He is known for such books as The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957).

Works

• The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957)
• Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1966), a scholarly study on the myth of the Jewish world domination conspiracy, especially as evidenced in the fabricated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion document
• Europe's Inner Demons (1975) rev.edition Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom (2000)
• Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith (1993, revised edition 2001)
• Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (1996)

Essays

• The Horns of Moses Commentary vol. 3 (September 1958)
• The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy: A Case Study in Collective Psychopathology Commentary vol. 41 no. 6 (June 1966) 35
• Monsters of Chaos Horizon: Magazine of the Arts no. 4 (1972) 42
• Permanence de Millénarismes Le Contrat Social: revue historique et critique des faits et des idées vol. 6 no. 5 (September 1962) 289
• Adamo: the Distinguished Savage The Twentieth Century vol. 155 (January 1954) 263
• The Saint-Simonian Extravaganza The Twentieth Century vol. 154 (July 1953) 354
• The Magus of the North The Twentieth Century vol. 153 (January 1953) 283
• The Saint-Simonian Portent The Twentieth Century vol. 152 (July 1952)
• How Time Acquired a Consummation Apocalypse Theory and the End of the World (1995) 21-37(compilation)