Prof Andrew Pettegree
Prof Andrew Pettegree

Professor Andrew Pettegree

BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), FRHistS

 
Contact Details

E-mail - admp@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462903
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

I began my career working on aspects of the European Reformation.  My first book was a study of religious refugee communities in the sixteenth century, and since then I have published on the Dutch Revolt, and on the Reformation in Germany, France and England, as well as a general survey history of the sixteenth century.  In the last years the focus of my research has shifted towards an interest in the history of communication, and especially the history of the book. I run a research group that in 2011 completed a survey of all books published before 2011: the Universal Short Title Catalogue.  This work will continue, in 2012-2016, with work to incorporate new discoveries and continue the survey into the seventeenth century.  In 2010 I published an award-winning study of The Book in the Renaissance, and I am now working on a history of news.  I will return to the Reformation for a study of Luther’s writings for the Reformation anniversary of 2017.

I am the lead editor of two monograph series: the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, and The Library of the Written Word.  In 2012 I will begin a three year term as Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society.

I welcome enquiries from potential postgraduate students working on any aspect of the Reformation or Book History.

Main Publications

  • The Universal Short Title Catalogue (on-line resource: http://www.ustc.ac.uk/)
  • The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010). Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize.
  • NB. Netherlandish Books.  Books published in the Low Countries before 1601 (Brill, 2010)
  • Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press, 2005) [Details]
  • Europe in the Sixteenth Century  (Blackwell, 2002) [Details]
  • The Reformation World  (Routledge, 2000) [Details]
  • Marian Protestantism: Six Studies, (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, Ashgate, 1996)
  • Emden and the Dutch Revolt: Exile and the Development of Reformed Protestantism  (Oxford University Press, 1992) [Details]
  • The Early Reformation in Europe  (Cambridge University Press, 1992) [Details]
  • Foreign Protestant Communities in Sixteenth-Century London (Oxford University Press, 1986)

Administrative Duties

Founding Director, St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute

Director of the AHRC-funded Universal Short Title Catalogue project

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of First Level Modern History and offers the following Honours courses:

  • Before the Daily: a history of the News, 1400-1800

Research Students

  • Flavia Bruni, The books of S. Pier Piccolo in Arezzo as described in the Enquiry of the Roman Congregation of the Index: a retrospective bibliographic reconstruction
  • Graeme Kemp, The theme of religious conversion in Seventeenth-century French printed books
  • Sophie Mullins, Latin books published in Paris, 1500-1540 (with Malcolm Walsby)
  • Amelie Roper, The production of printed music in sixteenth-century Augsburg and Nuremberg
  • Jennifer Winters, Booksellers and their stock: an examination of the early modern book trade in provincial England
Main Publications

Europe in the Sixteenth Century

 

Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion

 

The Reformation World