Andrew Pettegree

Who is Andrew Pettegree?

Andrew Pettegree is a British historian and one of the leading experts on Europe during the Reformation. He currently holds a professorship at St Andrews University where he is the director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. He is also the founding director of the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute.

Educated at Oxford, Pettegree held Research Fellowships at the Universities of Hamburg and Cambridge before moving to St Andrews in 1986. In 1991 he was named the founding director of the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute, which has since become recognised as a leading centre for research in the field.

His early work was mostly concentrated on the subject of sixteenth century immigrant communities, with two books, Foreign Protestant Communities in Sixteenth Century London and Emden and the Dutch Revolt. The most influential book of this phase of his career is probably Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion, a study of the process by which Reformation ideas were communicated, through the media of publications, pictures, theatre and song.