Reformation Historian

Andrew Pettegree

2 articles 2006–2017

Andrew Pettegree is a historian and professor at the University of St Andrews, specializing in the Reformation, early modern European history, and the history of print and communication. He is the author of numerous books, including works on Martin Luther and the impact of the printing press. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics related to Protestantism and religious history.

Great Awakening

February 17, 2017 · Andrew Pettegree, Christianity, Religion

Five hundred years ago, an obscure German churchman named Martin Luther issued a call for debate on an abstruse aspect of late medieval theology. From that mundane event followed a sequence of cascading consequences that would divide the Western Catholic tradition and leave a legacy, Protestantism,…

Protestant England

May 1, 2006 · Andrew Pettegree, Magazine, Books and Arts

The King's Reformation