Peter Sawyer (historian)

Peter Hayes Sawyer (25 June 1928 – 7 July 2018[1][2]) was a British historian.

His work on the Vikings was highly influential, as was his scholarship on Medieval England.

[3] He grew up in Oxford, except for time spent with relatives in Milford Haven during WWII.

[3] Sawyer studied at Oxford University from 1948 to 1951, where he was a member of Jesus College and graduated with a B.A.

There, in collaboration with Robert Stuart Hoyt, he founded the International Medieval Bibliography.