Peter Marshall (historian)

This article is about the historian of the Reformation. For historian of the British Empire, see Peter James Marshall.

Peter Marshall FRHistS FBA
Born	(1964-10-26) 26 October 1964 Orkney, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Academic background
Alma mater	University College, Oxford
Thesis title	Attitudes of the English People to Priests and Priesthood, 1500–1553
Thesis year	1990
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub discipline	Early modern English history history of Christianity social history
Institutions	University of Warwick
Main interests	Reformation
Notable works	Heretics 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.

Biography

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

Marshall began his career as a teacher: he was a history teacher at Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic independent 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. He was appointed Professor of History in 2006.

Honours

Marshall was the winner of the 2018 Wolfson History Prize for his book Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. 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. He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).

Published works

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.