Peter Raedts

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]

• '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.