Peter Raedts
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P.G.J.M. "Peter" Raedts (1 November 1948 – 27 February 2021) was a leading Dutch
medievalist, best known for the book De ontdekking van de middeleeuwen ("The discovery of the Middle Ages"), which took him eight years to write.[1]
Biography
Peter Raedts was born and grew up in
Radboud University in Nijmegen. He retired in 2013, but continued to provide historical consultancy for Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, where he died.[2]
Publications (selection)
- 'The Children's Crusade of 1212', Journal of Medieval History 3 (1977), 279–324.
- Richard Rufus of Cornwall and the Tradition of Oxford Theology, doctoral thesis).
- 'The medieval city as a holy place', in: Charles Caspers and Marc Schneiders (eds.), Omnes circumadstantes (Kampen 1990) 144–154.
- 'Ter verdediging van kerk en vaderland, Het middeleeuwse verleden tussen Renaissance en Verlichting', Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 115 (2002) 356–382
- 'Representations of the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Historiography', The medieval history journal 5 (2002) 1–20.
- ‘Ordering the medieval past: England and the continent compared’, Communio Viatorum 46 (2004) 168–191.
- ‘Scholasticism’, in: E.A. Livingstone (ed), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd edition; Oxford 2005) 1476–1479.
- De ontdekking van de Middeleeuwen: Geschiedenis van een illusie, Amsterdam 2011.
- De uitvinding van de rooms-katholieke kerk, Amsterdam 2013.
References
- ^ RTV Utrecht, Historicus Peter Raedts (72) overleden, 28 February 2021
- ^ a b Hendrik Spiering (1 March 2021). "Peter Raedts was mediëvist die af wilde van de middeleeuwen". NRC Handelsblad.
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