Larson is particularly inventive, meticulous and thorough in his methodology. The work is highly statistical, supported by a number of carefully constructed data bases, which underpin the discussions of tenure and landholding, early modern demography, and standards of living
Peter L. Larson received his PhD from Rutgers in 2004 and holds MA degrees from Durham University and the Catholic University of America. He is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida and has been chair of the History Department since 2016. He is the author of Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1349-1400 (2006). His research centres on the social and economic history of County Durham in
the late medieval and early modern periods.