Peter Edward Russell (1913 - 2006), New Zealand historian and historian.
Since 1953 he was a professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Oxford, where he was also director of Portuguese studies. A disciple of William James Entwistle and Dámaso Alonso, he studied modern languages and literature at Oxford (1931-1935), and then studied for many years in the Peninsular and English archives the history of England's diplomatic and military interventions in Spain and Portugal in the fourteenth century. After World War II he published, without abandoning his interest in medieval history, several studies on literary subjects such as the medieval epic, La Celestina and the influence of Spanish literature in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was a member of the Portuguese Academy of History and several Anglo-Spanish and Anglo-Portuguese entities. Between his books they emphasize the sources of Fernâo Lopes (Coimbra, 1914); The English intervention in Spain and Portugal in the Time of Edward III and Richard II (Oxford, 1955) and Prince Henry the Navigator (London: Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Councils, 1960). Among the great number of studies published in several journals, several works on the Cid, others on Fernando de Rojas and La Celestina, Portuguese and English literature and history (Enrique the Navigator, Fernando Lopes, Eduardo III, Ricardo II, Pedro I the Cruel, Enrique II) and Dante Alighieri and the Spanish humanism.
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