Professor Peregrine Horden

MA, FRHistS, FSA

History

Official Fellow since 2021

Peregrine has been College Librarian since 2021. His research areas include the history of medieval medicine and charity, the history of the Mediterranean environment, and the history of All Souls College. Prior to becoming the Librarian he was an Extraordinary Research Fellow (2005 to 2021), a Fifty-Pound Fellow (1985-2005) and an Prize Fellow (1977 to 1984).

Research Areas

History of Medieval Medicine and Charity

History of the Mediterranean Environment

History of All Souls College

Selected Publications

A Companion to Mediterranean History

ed. with Sharon Kinoshita, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

ed. with Elisabeth Hsu, (Oxford: Berghahn, 2013).

All Souls and the Wider World: Statesmen, Scholars, and Adventurers, c.1850-1950

ed. with S. J. D. Green, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages

(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)

All Souls under the Ancien Régime: Politics, Learning and the Arts c. 1650-1850

ed. with S. J. D. Green, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

(ed.), Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages

(Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2007)

Background

Extraordinary Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005 to 2021)
Wellcome Trust Research Lecturer, then Reader, Royal Holloway, University of London (from 1995 to 2007)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 2005)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1977 to 1984)
Undergraduate, Christ Church, Oxford (from 1974 to 1977)