
Peter Raedts

P.G.J.M. "Peter" Raedts (1 November 1948 – 27 February 2021) was a leading Dutch medievalist, best known for the book "De ontdekking van de middeleeuwen" ("The discovery of the Middle Ages"), which took him eight years to write.
Biography.
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. 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.