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Peter is a historian of the Medieval Western Church, specialising in the period circa 1150-1500. He completed his doctorate in the field in 1995 under Prof. Jeffrey H. Denton at the University of Manchester. Following this, he was a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome from 1995 to 1998, initially supported by a Leverhulme Study Abroad Scholarship to study medieval canon law manuscripts in the Vatican Library. He was also a researcher for the German project Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum, where he edited papal sources in the Vatican Archives. From 1998 to 2004, he worked as a Research Associate at Cambridge University History Faculty on projects including the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues (British Academy) and the Supplications England Wales Papal Penitentiary registers (Leverhulme). In 2005, Peter took a lectureship at the University of Wales Bangor and joined the University of Southampton in 2007, where he has published extensively on canon law and is currently focusing on papal penitentiary records. His research interests include crime, violence, and the role of clergy within medieval society.
University of Southampton • Southampton
Lecturing on medieval history and guiding research in the field.
British School at Rome • Rome
Conducted research on medieval canon law.
Cambridge University • Cambridge
Worked on British medieval library catalogues and papal penitentiary registers.
University of Wales Bangor • Bangor
Lectured on medieval history subjects.