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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 NATASHA HODGSON
Nottingham Trent University
Recent publications:
‘Leading the People 'as duke, count and father': the Masculinities of Abbot Martin of Pairis in Gunther of Pairis' in Natasha Hodgson, Katherine Lewis, and Matthew Mesley ed. Crusading Masculinities, Crusades Subsidia (Routledge, 2019).
‘Reputation, authority and masculine identities in the political culture of the First Crusaders: the career of Arnulf of Chocques’, History, 102 (2017).
‘Normans and competing masculinities on the First Crusade’ in Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World, eds. Kathryn Hurlock and Paul Oldham (Boydell, 2015).
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).
DR DAMIEN KEMPF
Liverpool University
Recent publications:
'La vie de saint Memmie de Châlons et les légendes apostoliques des diocèses de Gaule au début du IXe siècle', Revue d'Histoire de l'Eglise de France, 103(1), pp. 5-25.
Nelson, J., & Kempf, D. Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
Kempf, D., & Bull, M. Narrating the First Crusade: Historiography, Memory and Transmission in the Narratives of the Early Crusade Movement (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014).
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).
DR JAN VANDEBURIE
University of Leicester
Recent publications:
'Dress to Impress - Jacques de Vitry and the Power of the Episcopal Office', in Power Manifest: Structures and Concepts of Ecclesiastical Authority in the High Middle Ages, ed. by T. Smith and M. Ross (Brepols, 2020), pp. 233-252.
'"A Dragon With Nine Heads”: The Changing Reputation of Crusader Acre, c. 1191-c. 1291’, in Cultures and Practices of Coexistence from the Thirteenth through the Seventeenth Centuries, ed. by Marco Folin and Antonio Musarra (New York, 2020).
Edited with Liz Mylod, Guy Perry and Thomas W. Smith, The Fifth Crusade in Context. The Crusading Movement in the Early thirteenth Century, Crusades - Subsidia (Routledge, 2016).
DR JAMES DOHERTY
University of Birmingham
Recent publications:
'Fulcher of Chartres and Armed Pilgrims, 1104-1127', in Chronicle, Crusade and the Latin East: Essays in Honour of Susan B. Edgington (Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East; Vol. 16).
'The crusading Furnivals: family tradition, political expediency and social pressure in crusade motivation', Journal of Family History (2022).
'Commemorating the crusading past in late medieval England: the Worksop Priory tabula', English Historical Review, 136(581), pp. 809-835.