Peter Biller is

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Professor of Medieval History at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

, 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, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization. The term is usually used in reference to violations of important religi ...

inquisition The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, conducting trials of suspected heretics. Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, ...

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 From The Smallest Beginnings , established = 1902 (Renamed 1948) , closed = , type = Independent day school , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic , president = , head_label ...

;

Oriel College, Oxford Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, wh ...

(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, in which field he is a Haskins Medal winner. He is currently the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. He is also a former Director of the Program i ...

, ''

Social History Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

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

References

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