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Simon Pepper (professor)

architectural and military historian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ22087244 ↗
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Simon Mark Pepper is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Liverpool. He is a specialist in late medieval and early modern military architecture.

Career

Pepper is professor of architecture at the University of Liverpool. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is a specialist in late medieval and early modern military architecture and has been on the editorial board of Fort: The International Journal of Military Architecture since 1997. Pepper is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Selected publications

Firearms and fortifications: Military architecture and siege warfare in Sixteenth Century Siena. University of Chicago Press, 1986. (With Nicholas Adams) ISBN 0226655342

"Sword and spade: Military construction in renaissance Italy", in Construction History, 16, 2000. pp.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simon Pepper (professor)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.