Peter Spufford, FSA, FRHistS, FBA (18 August 1934 – 18 November 2017) was a British historian and academic, specialising in the economics of Medieval Europe.
[3] Spufford began his academic career as a research fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1958 to 1960.
He retired from full-time academia in 2001 and was appointed Emeritus Fellow of Queens' College.
While all three books have shaped the academic study of the medieval economy, the third also found an enthusiastic audience among general readers – and as a resource for fantasy novelists including Daniel Abraham and Guy Gavriel Kay.
[5] He was also President of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society for the 1959/1960 academic year and later served as Vice-President.