Peter Biller is

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Professor of Medieval History at the

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, where he has taught since 1970. Biller is general editor of the

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, a Fellow of the

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and a Fellow of the

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. His research interests include academic thought,

heresy Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. A heretic is a proponent of heresy. Heresy in Heresy in Christian ...

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including AHRB funded research on inquisition trials, and medicine in medieval Europe. He is a member of the board of Bollettino della Società di Studi Valdesi. He is married to mathematician

Miggy Biller Margherita Joan (Miggy) Biller is a British mathematics teacher, the head of mathematics at York College. She was named an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours "for services to mathematics in further education". Biller taught mathematics at St Pe ...

Education and fellowships

St Benedict's School, Ealing St Benedict's School, usually referred to as St Benedict's, is a British co-educational, independent Catholic day school for pupils aged 3-18 situated in Ealing, West London. A Benedictine school, it accepts and educates pupils of all faiths. H ...

;

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(BA Modern Hist. 1966; MA 1970; DPhil 1974; Hon. Fellow 2017). FRHistS 1987. FBA 2012. Honorary Fellow Oriel College Oxford 2017. Corresponding Fellow Medieval Academy of America 2022.

Selected publications

* *''The Waldenses 1170-1530: Between a Religious Order and a Church''.

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, Aldershot, 2001.

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*''The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought''.

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, Oxford, 2000.Reviewed Work: The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought by Peter Biller

William Chester Jordan William Chester Jordan (born April 7, 1948) is an American medievalist who serves as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University; he is a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his work concerning the Great Famine of 1315–131 ...

, ''

Social History Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

'', Vol. 29, No. 1 (Feb., 2004), pp. 116-118.

References

British medievalists Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of the University of York Living people People educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub