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DR JASON T. ROCHE
Manchester Metropolitan University
Recent publications:
International Journal of Military History and Historiography: Special Issue: The Appropriation and Weaponisation of the Crusades in the Modern Era, guest editor, Jason T. Roche, Volume 41, Issue 2 (2021).
The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany. Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-1148 (Turnhout, 2021).
‘The Byzantine Conception of the Latin Barbarian and Distortion in the Greek Narratives of the Early Crusades’, in Fighting for the Faith – the Many Crusades, eds. Kurt Villens Jensen, Carsten Selch Jensen & Janus Møller Jensen (Stockholm, 2018), pp. 143-73.
DR SOPHIE AMBLER
Lancaster University
Recent publications:
'Simon de Montfort (d. 1265) and Montfortian Family Legacy' in Simon de Montfort (c.1170-1218), eds. Gregory Lippiatt, Laurent Mace, and Martin Aurell (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020) pp. 195-213.
The Song of Simon de Montfort: The Life and Death of a Medieval Revolutionary (Oxford University Press, 2019).
DR KATHRYN HURLOCK
Manchester Metropolitan University
Recent publications:
‘Was there combat trauma in the middle ages? A case for moral injury in pre-modern conflict’, in Combat Stress in Pre-Modern Europe, ed. with Owen Rees and Jason Crowley (Basingstoke, 2022), 123-150.
‘Family, Faith, and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Late and Post-Medieval Wales’, in Crusading and Ideas of the Holy Land in Medieval Britain, ed. with Laura J. Whatley (Turnhout, 2022), 149-70.
‘Crusading Rhetoric and Anglo-Irish Relations, c. 1300-1600’, in Ireland and the Crusades, ed. E.Coleman, P.Duffy, T. O’Keeffe (Dublin, 2022).
PROFESSOR KATHERINE J. LEWIS
University of Huddersfield
Recent publications:
'Refashioning Henry VIII as a Crusader King: Edward I, Crusading and Ideal Kingship in BL, Royal MS18XXVI.', in Crusading and Ideas of the Holy Land in Medieval Britain, eds. K. Hurlock, & L. J. Whatley (Turnhout, 2022) pp. 225-255.
DR ALEX METCALFE
Lancaster University
Recent publications:
The Making of Medieval Sardinia, edited with H. Fernandez-Aceves and M. Muresu [The Medieval Mediterranean Series, vol. 128] (Leiden, 2021).
‘Historiography in the making: a name-list of Sicilian Muslims from the Rollus Rubeus cartulary of Cefalù cathedral’, in Rethinking Norman Italy: Studies in Honour of Graham A. Loud, eds Joanna H. Drell and Paul Oldfield (Manchester, 2021), pp. 46–92.
‘Messaging and memory: notes from medieval Ifrīqiya and Sicily', in Sicily, al-Andalus and the Maghreb: Writing in Times of Turmoil, a special issue of The Medieval Globe 5/1 (2019), eds Carol Symes and Nicola Carpentieri, pp. 87–104.
DR ALAN V. MURRAY
University of Leeds
Recent publications:
Baldwin of Bourcq: Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem, 1100-1131, Rulers of the Latin East, 4 (London: Routledge, 2022).
‘From Jerusalem to Mexico: Unity and Diversity in Crusading, Eleventh to Sixteenth Centuries’, in Legacies of the Crusades: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Odense, 27 June – 1 July 2016, Volume 1, ed. Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen and Kurt Villads Jensen, Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 11 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), pp. 21–44.
‘Representations of Genocide: Slaughter, Expulsion and Enslavement in the Crusades to the Holy Land’, in A Cultural History of Genocide in the Middle Ages, ed. Melodie H. Eichbauer, A Cultural History of Genocide, 2 (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021), pp. 145–64.
DR NICHOLAS MORTON
Nottingham Trent University
Recent publications:
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East (London: Basic Books, 2022).
The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East (London: Basic Books, 2018).