Charles Freeman is a scholar and freelance historian specializing in the history of ancient Greece and Rome. He is the author of numerous books on the ancient world including The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

The Closing of the Western Mind

The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason is a book by historian Charles Freeman in which he presents the case that the vital Greek Traditions of rationality and science were suppressed and ultimately vanished in the West for a thousand years as a result of the...

. He has taught courses on ancient history in Cambridge's Adult Education program and is Historical Consultant to the Blue Guides. He also leads cultural study tours to Italy, Greece and Turkey. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He lives in Suffolk, England.

Early Life and Education

From an early age Freeman was passionate about history and spent his school holidays helping on archeological digs run by Ipswich Museum. He studied law at Trinity, University of Cambridge alongside Charles, Prince of Wales and after graduation spent a year teaching in the Sudan.

In addition to a law degree, he holds a master’s degree in African history and politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and an additional master’s degree in applied research in education from the University of East Anglia.

In 1978 he was appointed head of history at St Clare’s, Oxford.

Personal life

Charles Freeman lives in Suffolk near Framlingham with his
second wife Lydia; between the two of them they have seven children. Thomas Freeman, his youngest son is an accomplished percussionist performing worldwide and a revered Occupational psychologist.

Publications

• The World of the Romans: Illustrated Encyclopedia of World History. Published November 11, 1993 by Oxford University Press.
• Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean. Published November 14, 1996
• The Legacy of Ancient Egypt. Published April 1, 1997 by Facts on File/Checkmark Books
• The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World. Published August 1, 1999
• The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
  The Closing of the Western Mind
  The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason is a book by historian Charles Freeman in which he presents the case that the vital Greek Traditions of rationality and science were suppressed and ultimately vanished in the West for a thousand years as a result of the...
  
  . Published October 7, 2003
• A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State. Published February 5, 2009
• A New History of Early Christianity. Published October 27, 2009
• Sites of Antiquity: From Ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome, 50 Sites that Explain the Classical World. Published November 7, 2009
• The Horses of St. Mark's: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice. Published August 12, 2010
• Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe. Published May 24, 2011