Croisades - Histoires et idées reçues, eds. Martin Aurell and Sylvain Gouguenheim (Perrin, June 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… lisez.com/livres/croisad… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #crusades #crusading

Grateful to present my PhD research today at Institut für Geschichte Darmstadt, sharing the concepts and methods I’ve been developing for nearly three years. Thanks to everyone who contributed with valuable feedback! #PhDLife #HistTwitter #MedievalStudies #MilitaryOrders #WaterHistory #sscle

Finished! It gives me great pleasure to introduce my new book... "The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Holy War" A history of the Crusades and the Middle East (1097-1187) told from ten different cultural perspectives. Just sent off to the publishers.

New release in Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology widely renowned series Crusade Texts in Translation "The book of Raymond of Aguilers: Historia Francorum Qui Ceperunt Iherusalem" Translated by James Currie

Today, I received my copy of Crusades Subsidia: Hospitallers and Others. It includes my article “The Military Conservatism of the Hospitallers during the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries” #Crusades #Hospitallers #militaryhistory #Rhodes #Aegean #medievalwarfare

🌍📜🏰✨ Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Today’s illumination comes from the Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris and offers a stunning cartographic view of the Holy Land. Can you recognise any cities along the coastline? 📖 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 26, fol. ivr

Turaida, castle of the Teutonic Knights in modern day Latvia

This is the Hospitaller holding at Aqua Bella (kingdom of Jerusalem) Notably it's only lightly defended, suggesting that - away from the frontier - the kingdom of Jerusalem achieved a fairly high level of stability in rural areas for an extended period.

Belvoir, a Hospitaller fortress (kingdom of Jerusalem 1160s-1170s). Designed to resist common siege tactics - undermining and archery/artillery barrages - it included over twenty sally-ports, allowing the garrison to stage sallies, as well as two lines of ramparts for archers.

🎉📖 #newrelease in #openaccess edited by Amar S. Baadj and Ahmed M. Sheir! The Historiography and Memory of the Crusades in the Modern Arab World, edited by Amar S. Baadj and Ahmed M. Sheir (Trivent Publishing, July 2025) Trivent Publishing

📢 Call for Papers 📍 Session at the SSCLE 2026 Conference in Porto 🛡️ The Military Religious Orders in Context: Between Integration and Autonomy 📅 Submit by 15 October to: 📩 [email protected] 📩 [email protected] ⬇️ See below for more info

🌍📜🏰✨ Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Today’s gem from the Chronica maiora offers a detailed view of Acre, nestled on the coast of the Holy Land. 📖 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 026: Matthew Paris OSB, Chronica maiora I, fol. iiivFLD A

Call for Papers: Crusade and Mission in the Thirteenth Century: Between Warfare and Evangelisation (#SSCLE 2026) Please get in touch, or submit your title and abstract alongside a short academic bio to [email protected] by 10 November 2025

🎉 New Release Alert! 📘 Benjamin Kedar, cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem: Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades (Cornell University Press, 2025) cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178… Cornell University Press

Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Or rather… welcome to #MatthewParisMonday — it’s official now! Today’s highlight from Matthew Paris’ Chronica maiora is one of the most iconic medieval images: two Templars sharing a single horse. 📖 Corpus Christi College, MS 026: fol. 110v

🎉 SSCLE Election Results 🎉 We’re delighted to share the results of the recent SSCLE Committee elections! A total of 180 ballots were cast — thank you to everyone who took part. Here’s to another exciting chapter for the SSCLE! 🚀

⚔️📜🏰 Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this striking illumination from the Passages d’Outremer, showing the Siege of Antioch (1097–1098) during the First Crusade. 🖋️ BnF, Français 5594, fol. 59v Gallica BnF La Bibliothèque nationale de France

For today’s #MosaicMonday, we will revisit the mosaics of the Fourth Crusade in San Giovanni Evangelista in Ravenna. (Pics credit: Stephan Knott) #medieval #crusades #art #fourthcrusade