Peter Jones | How to Write a Book, Laughter as a Political Weapon

Peter Jones is a cultural historian, specializing in the religious, political, and intellectual life of medieval Europe (c.500−1500). After completing a BA and MA at the University of Bristol, Peter received his PhD in History from New York University in 2014.

From 2014−16 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, and from 2016 -17 he worked as a visiting scholar at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. He has also been a Frances A. Yates Long Term Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and a teaching fellow at University College London.