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.
Next he taught at the University of Pennsylvania between 1950 and 1965, succeeding another medievalist, John L. La Monte [pl].