Peters, Edward, 1936-

Edward Murray Peters (born May 21, 1936) is an emeritus professor of University of Pennsylvania who specialized in the religious and political history of early Europe. He has done in-depth research regarding heresy, repression and the limits and treatment of intellectual inquiry in the low Middle Ages. He has also done deep research on historiography criticising, improving and reviewing the methods that traditional historiography has applied to the low medieval time period.He pioneered the first Medieval Studies PhD in Yale History.