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 Heerlen in a Catholic family. At the age of eighteen he became a member of the Society of Jesus.[2] He studied theology in Amsterdam and history at Utrecht University. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Richard Southern with a thesis on Richard Rufus of Cornwall. In 1984 Raedts started lecturing on Church history at the Catholic University of Utrecht. He also worked at Leiden University before being appointed a professor at 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, Oxford 1987 (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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