From 1972 to 1974 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin. There he completed his habilitation in Byzantine studies in 1974. He was a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin until 1979.
From 1979 to 2005 he was a full professor of Byzantine Studies and director of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne. In 1992 he was a visiting professor at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris and in 2000 a visiting professor at the Collège de France.
His research focuses on manuscript research (paleography,codicology,libraries),the urban history of Constantinople,Genoa,Venice and Byzantium. His research projects include,among other things,studies on the Sofia manuscript of Johannes Skylitzes,research on the settlements of Western merchants in Constantinople up to the end of the 12th century,as well as the edition and commentary of 100 inventory lists of private and church book collections from the 11th to the 15th century. He wrote a standard overview of the history of the Byzantine Empire,the fourth updated edition of which appeared in 2011.[4]
Studien zu den Brachea chronika (Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia,6). München:Institut für Byzantinistik und neugriechische Philologie der Universität München,1967, DNB-IDN458884979 (dissertation).
Stadt und Gesetz – Dorf und Brauch. Versuch einer historischen Volkskunde von Byzanz: Methoden, Quellen, Gegenstände, Beispiele (Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, 9/2001). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, DNB-IDN963445073.
Texte zur spätbyzantinischen Finanz- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte in Handschriften der Biblioteca Vaticana (Studi e testi, 344). Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1991, ISBN88-210-0637-9.
Essay collections
Byzantinische Kultur. Eine Aufsatzsammlung, collected short writings:
Band 3: Die materielle Kultur, ed. Christina Katsougiannopoulou and Silvia Ronchey, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011, ISBN978-88-8498-368-8 (Inhaltsverzeichnis);
"The writings of Peter Schreiner from the years 1965–2000", in Polypleuros nus. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, ed. Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris (Byzantinisches Archiv, 19). München: Saur, 2000, pp. 415–429, ISBN3-598-77742-6.
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