Peter Marshall

FRHistS FBA
Born (1964-10-26) 26 October 1964
Orkney, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
ThesisAttitudes of the English People to Priests and Priesthood, 1500–1553 (1990)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Warwick
Main interestsReformation
Notable worksHeretics and Believers (2017)

Peter Marshall FRHistS FBA (born 26 October 1964) is a Scottish historian and academic, known for his work on the Reformation and its impact on the British Isles and Europe. He is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.[1]

Biography

Marshall was born on 26 October 1964 in Orkney, Scotland.[2][3] He was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School, before studying at University College, Oxford.[2] His doctoral thesis was titled Attitudes of the English People to Priests and Priesthood, 1500–1553.[4]

Marshall began his career as a teacher: he was a history teacher at Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic private school in North Yorkshire. In 1994, he joined the University of Warwick as a lecturer. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2001, and to reader in 2004.[2] He was appointed Professor of History in 2006.[2][5]

Honours

Marshall was the winner of the 2018 Wolfson History Prize for his book Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation.[6][7] In July 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[8] He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[2]

Published works

Books authored

  • The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204480.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-820448-0.
  • Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207733.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-820773-3.
  • Reformation England, 1480–1642 (1st ed.). London: Hodder Education. 2003. ISBN 978-0-340-70623-7.
  • Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7546-5390-5.
  • Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-927371-3.
  • The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-923131-7.
  • Reformation England, 1480–1642 (2nd ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2012. ISBN 978-1849665292.
  • 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-968201-0.
  • Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-300-17062-7.
  • Invisible Worlds: Death, Religion and the Supernatural in England, 1500–1700. London: SPCK. 2017. ISBN 978-0-281-07522-5.

Books edited

  • The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500–1640. London: Arnold. 1997. ISBN 978-0-340-67709-4.
  • The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. With Gordon, Bruce. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-521-64518-8.
  • The Beginnings of English Protestantism. With Ryrie, Alec. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-80274-1.
  • Angels in the Early Modern World. With Walsham, Alexandra. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-84332-4.
  • Catholic Gentry in English Society: The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to Emancipation. With Scott, Geoffrey. Farnham, England: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6432-1.
  • The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-959548-8.

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Peter Marshall". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Professor Peter Marshall". Department of History. University of Warwick. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. ↑ Peter Marshall (2017). Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. Yale University Press. p. iv. ISBN 978-0-300-22633-1.
  4. ↑ Marshall, Peter (1990). Attitudes of the English people to priests and priesthood, 1500-1553. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The British Library Board. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Winner of Wolfson History Prize 2018 Announced". The Wolfson Foundation. June 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "'Ambitious' account of English Reformation wins Wolfson History Prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Wolfson History Prize - The Wolfson Foundation". www.wolfson.org.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2018.


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