Kenneth Meyer Setton (June 17, 1914 – February 18, 1995) was an American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe, particularly the Crusades.
Setton received his bachelor's degree in 1936 as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University.
His dissertation Christian Attitude Toward the Emperor in the Fourth Century was written under the direction of Lynn Thorndike.
[3] Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work, the four-volume The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571.
[9] In the period between 1965 and 1968 he taught at the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities.