The
Director: Professor Peter Edbury
The Cardiff Centre for the Crusades was established in 2000 to encourage and
develop
The Centre’s interests embrace the history and ideology of the crusading movement, the history and archaeology of the lands conquered by the crusaders, the impact of the crusades on those lands and peoples against which expeditions were directed and from which expeditions were launched, and the history of the Military Orders. All theatres of crusading activity and any crusade from the end of the eleventh century onwards are included.
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Members of the Centre
Professor Peter Edbury
(Professor: Medieval History) is a specialist on the history and institutions
of the Latin East and
Dr Helen Nicholson
(Reader in Medieval History) is a historian of the Military Orders and the
Crusades, and the depiction of the Military Orders in literary sources. Among
her publications are The Knights Hospitaller (Boydell, 2001); The
Knights Templar: a New History (Sutton, 2001); Love, War and the Grail:
Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in medieval epic and romance,
c.1150-1500 (Brill, 2000); and Chronicles of the Third Crusade (Ashgate,
1997). She is also the editor of The Military Orders: Welfare and Warfare (Ashgate,
1998); Palgrave Advances in the Crusades
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and co-editor with Jochen Burgtorf of International Mobility in the Military
Orders (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ's Business (
Professor Denys Pringle
(Professor in Archaeology) is the leading authority on the archaeology,
architecture and topography of the Crusader States in the
Other staff in the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology with interests which intersect with the history of Crusades include Professor Peter Coss whose work on English knightly society includes precisely the sort of families whose members participated in crusades or in pilgrimages to the Holy Land or who joined the Military Orders, and Dr William Aird, currently at work on a biography of Robert Curthose, a leader of the First Crusade.
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Major Research Projects currently in hand by members of the Centre
include the Ramla Urban project, directed by Denys Pringle and involving Peter
Edbury and Andrew Petersen and scholars from the Universities of Glasgow,
Oxford, St Andrews and Jerusalem, and the `Aqaba Castle project, directed by D.
Pringle with the late Dr Johnny De Meulemeester of the University of Ghent and
involving scholars from the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and the
Oriental Institute in Chicago. He is currently at work on project on
thirteenth-century pilgrims to
Peter Edbury's edition of the Livre des Assises by John of Ibelin
(Brill) appeared in September 2003 and edition of the legal treatise by Philip
of Novara is due at the end of 2009. He is now embarked on an AHRC-funded
project to re-edit the Old French Continuations of William of Tyre. for further details see http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/newsandevents/history/edbury-ahrc-project.html
Helen Nicholson is preparing a complete edition of the Templar trial
proceedings in the
Useful Link: The Society for the Study
of the Crusades and the Latin East.
Please address enquiries to:
Professor
Peter Edbury
(E-mail: Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk)
Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 5651 or +44 (0)29 2087 4313
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4929
Last updated September 2009