CONTRIBUTOR:

Edward Peters

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Henry Charles Lea Professor of History

DEPARTMENT:

Department of History

INSTITUTION:

University of Pennsylvania

BIOGRAPHY:

Edward Peters held the Henry Charles Lea Chair of History at the University of Pennsylvania for forty-one years, from 1968 to 2009. He has published more than one hundred scholarly books, articles, and reviews, and from 1970 to 1995 he founded and edited the series The Middle Ages at the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the Royal Historical Society.