Yr Athro Denys Pringle
Emeritus Professor
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Education and Qualifications
1973 – 1978: Oxford University (Keble College), DPhil in Archaeology (‘Sixth-century Fortifications in Byzantine Africa’)
1970 – 1973: Southampton University, BA Combined Honours in Archaeology and History (First Class)
1970: Università Italiana per Stranieri, Perugia, Diploma in Elementary Italian
Career Overview
• 2013 - present: Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
• 2001 - 2013: Professor, Cardiff University
• 2004 - 2013: Professorial Fellow, Cardiff University
• 1986 – 1999: Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments, Historic Scotland (formerly Historic Buildings and Monuments Directorate, Scottish Development Department)
• 1984 – 1985, Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), Washington DC
• 1979 – 1984: Assistant-Director, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem
• 1977: Temporary Lecturer in Archaeology, The Queen's University of Belfast
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2007–8: Research Leave funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council to complete the book Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187–1291
2005–6: Leverhulme Research Fellowship to complete volume 4 of The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
2003: Prix Gustave Schlumberger awarded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut Français, Paris
1996–99: Honorary Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow
1995: Admitted as Serving Brother of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
July 1994–July 1995: Research Leave to complete volume 2 of The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem with the support of the Leverhulme Trust
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2003 - present: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
1992 - present: Member of the Scottish Medievalists
1987 – present: Member of the Castle Studies Group
1986 - present: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
1984 - present: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
1979 – present: Member of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (now Council for British Research in the Levant)
1973 – present: Member of the Society for Libyan Studies
1970 – present: Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute
1969 – present: Member of the Society for Medieval Archaeology
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2013 - present: Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
2001 - 2013: Professor, Cardiff University
2004 - 2013: Professorial Fellow, Cardiff University
1984 – 1985, Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard Universioty), Washington DC.
1979 – 1984: Assistant-Director, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem
1977: Temporary Lecturer in Archaeology, The Queens University of Belfast
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External Committees
2010–present: Member of the Management Committee of the Kenyon Institute (CBRL), Jerusalem
2001–2007: Honorary Secretary, Council for British Research in the Levant
2000–2: Member of the Council of the Palestine Exploration Fund
1999 – present: Member of the Llandaff Diocesan Committee for the Care of Churches and Diocesan Archaeologist
1998–1999: Member of the Committee of the Council for British Research in the Levant
1990–1998: Member of the Council of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem
1987 – 1999: Member of the Steering Committee of the Castle Studies Group
1986–1989: Member of theCouncil of the Society for Medieval Archaeology
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2023
- Pringle, D. 2023. Hospitaller castles and fortifications in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1136-1291/Castelos e fortificações do Hospitalno Reino de Jerusalém, 1136-1291. Medievalista 33, pp. 153-197. (10.4000/medievalista.6292.)
2022
- Pringle, D. 2022. The Christian buildings of Ramla.. In: Petersen, A. and Pringle, D. eds. Ramla, City of Muslim Palestine, 715–1917. Studies in History, Archaeology and Architecture Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 203-223.
- Pringle, D. 2022. Jerusalem 1099: from Muslim to Christian city. Medievalista 32, pp. 13-40. (10.4000/medievalista.5625)
- Pringle, D. and Kedar, B. Z. 2022. The site of the house of St Mary of Mountjoy, near Jerusalem. Revue biblique 129(3), pp. 392-407. (10.2143/RBI.129.3.3290746)
- Pringle, D. Huygens, R. ed. 2022. Three Pilgrimages to the Holy Land: Saewulf, John of Würzburg, Theoderic: Introduction, Translation and Notes..Pringle, D. Corpus Christianorum in Translation Vol. 41. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (10.1484/M.CCT-EB.5.122708)
- Pringle, D. 2022. Three pilgrimages to the holy land: Saewulf, John of Wurzburg, Theoderic. Corpus Christianorum in Translation. Brepols.
2021
- Laflı, E., Buora, M. and Pringle, D. 2021. Four Frankish gravestones from medieval Ephesus. Anatolian Studies 71, pp. 171-184. (10.1017/S0066154621000107)
- Pringle, D. 2021. Itineraria Terrae Sanctae Minora III: Some early twelfth-century guides to Frankish Jerusalem.. In: Kedar, B. Z. et al. eds. Crusades., Vol. 20. Routledge for Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, pp. 3-63.
- Petersen, A. and Pringle, D. eds. 2021. Ramla, City of Muslim Palestine, 715–1917: Studies in history, archaeology and architecture.. : Studies in History, Archaeology and Architecture. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Pringle, D. 2021. Pilgrims' graffiti of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries in the Franciscan hospice in Ramla.. In: Petersen, A. and Pringle, D. eds. Ramla, City of Muslim Palestine, 715–1917. Studies in History, Archaeology and Architecture Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 276-282.
- Pringle, D. 2021. Sites in the Crusader Lordships of Ramla, Lydda and Mirabel.. In: Petersen, A. and Pringle, D. eds. Ramla, City of Muslim Palestine, 715–1917. Studies in History, Archaeology and Architecture Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 286-293.
- Pringle, R. D. 2021. Itineraria Terrae Sanctae minora II: Innominati II–V and VIII. In: Kedar, B. Z. and Phillips, J. eds. Crusades., Vol. 19. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 57-108.
- Pringle, R. D. 2021. The fortifications of Edessa in medieval Latin sources. In: Tonghini, C. ed. From Edessa to Urfa: The Fortification of the Citadel. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 50-56.
2020
- Pringle, R. D. 2020. La description de la Terre Sainte de Belardo d’Ascoli (vers 1165–87). In: Meissonnier, J. ed. De la Bourgogne à l’Orient: Mélanges offerts à Monsieur le Doyen Jean Richard. Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-lettres de Dijon Vol. 148. Dijon: Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-lettres de Dijon, pp. 465-475.
- Edbury, P., Pringle, R. D. and Major, B. eds. 2020. Bridge of civilizations: The Near East and Europe c. 1100-1300. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2019
- Pringle, R. D. 2019. The Holy Land (Israel/Palestine/Lebanon/Jordan) and the crusader states, 1095–1489. In: Fraser, M. ed. Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 21st edition. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts for the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of London, pp. 901-909.
- Buckingham, H. and Pringle, R. D. 2019. The Fortifications: Grid 20 Fortification Tower.. In: Hoffman, T. L. ed. Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods. The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon Vol. 8. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, pp. 76-90.
- Pringle, R., Healy, F. and Ramsey, C. B. 2019. The radiocarbon dating of the Walls of Ashkelon. In: Hoffman, T. L. ed. Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods. The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon Vol. 8. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, pp. 223-245.
- Pringle, R. D. 2019. The identification of the Medieval Church of St Sabas in Jerusalem in the light of new documentary evidence. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 150(4), pp. 309-319. (10.1080/00310328.2018.1537697)
- Pringle, D. 2019. The Walls of Ascalon in the Byzantine, Early Islamic and Crusader Periods: A preliminary report on current research. In: Eychenne, M., Pradines, S. and Zouache, A. eds. Guerre et paix dans le Proche-Orient médiéval (Xe-Xve siècle). Textes arabes et études islamiques 54 Cairo: Institut français d'Archéologie orientale du Caire/Institut français du Proche Orient, pp. 449-479.
- Pringle, R. D. 2019. The survey of the Walls of Ashkelon. In: Hoffman, T. L. ed. Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods. The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon Vol. 8. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, pp. 97-221.
- Pringle, R. D. 2019. A Twelfth-century Itinerary from Hungary to the Holy Land and Othmar's vision of the Holy Fire. In: Edbury, P., Pringle, R. and Major, B. eds. Bridge of Civilizations: The Near East and Europe, c.1100-1300. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 313-328.
- Pringle, R. D. 2019. The Protestant tombs in the Orthodox Churchyard of St Lazarus in Larnaca and Environs, 1673–1849.. Annual Review of the Cyprus Research Centre 39, pp. 257-312.
2018
- Khamisy, R. and Pringle, D. 2018. Richard of Cornwall's Treaty with Egypt, 1241. In: Menache, S., Kedar, B. Z. and Ballard, M. eds. Crusading and trading between West and East: Studies in honour of David Jacoby. Routledge (Crusades - Subsidia 12), pp. 54-84.
- Hess, R. S. and Pringle, R. D. 2018. Sacred spaces and Holy Places. In: Williamson, H. G. and Hoyland, R. G. eds. The Illustrated Oxford History of the Holy Land. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 317-351.
- Pringle, R. D. 2018. The Revd John Donald Wilkinson (1929-2018) [Obituary]. Levant 49(3), pp. 233-236. (10.1080/00758914.2017.1441222)
- Pringle, R. D. 2018. The Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In: Fernie, E. and Griffith-Jones, R. eds. Tomb and Temple: Reimagining the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem. Boydell & Brewer
- Pringle, D. 2018. Itineraria Terrae Sanctae minora: Innominatus VII and its variants. In: Kedar, B. and Phillips, J. eds. Crusades., Vol. 17. London, UK: Taylor & Francis, pp. 39-89., (10.4324/9780429425318)
2017
- Pringle, R. D. 2017. Jane Geddes (ed.), Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the Dioceses of Aberdeen and Moray (London 2016) [Book Review]. Medieval Archaeology 61(1), pp. 204-204. (10.1080/00766097.2017.1301111)
2016
- Pringle, R. D. and Buckingham, H. 2016. The walls of medieval Ascalon 2014 [Report]. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 148(3), pp. 211-217. (10.1080/00310328.2016.1209303)
- Pringle, R. D. 2016. Wigmore Castle, North Herefordshire: Excavations 1996 and 1998, edited by Stephanie Rátkai [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 173(2), pp. 388-389. (10.1080/00665983.2016.1139926)
- Pringle, R. D. 2016. The abbey church of St Mary the Great (or the Less) and its Benedictine nunnery. In: Vieweger, D. and Gibson, S. eds. The Archaeology and History of the Church of the Redeemer and the Muristan in Jerusalem: A Collection of Essays from a Workshop on the Church of the Redeemer and its Vicinity held on 8th/9th September 2014 in Jerusalem. Archaeopress, pp. 121-135.
- Pringle, R. D. 2016. Traditions relating to St James the Great in the accounts of medieval Latin pilgrims to the Holy Land. In: Pazos, A. M. ed. Translating the Relics of St James: From Jerusalem to Santiago. Compostela International Studies in Pilgrimage History and Culture, 5. Routledge, pp. 129-139.
- Pringle, R. D. 2016. Travel from London to Syracuse by James Scott Pringle [1927].. Bolletino del Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche sul Viaggio in Italia (Moncalieri). 73(37), pp. 207-225.
2015
- Pringle, R. D. 2015. Carmarthen Castle: The archaeology of government, by Neil Ludlow [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 172(2), pp. 484-485. (10.1080/00665983.2015.1040681)
- Pringle, R. D. 2015. Gothic architecture in the Holy Land and Cyprus: from Acre to Famagusta. Levant 47(3), pp. 293-315. (10.1080/00758914.2015.1101944)
2014
- Pringle, R. D. 2014. Edward I, castle-building and the Tower of the English in Acre. In: Donavan, C. ed. A Fresh Approach: Essays Presented to Colin Platt in Celebration of his Eightieth Birthday, 11 November 2014. Bristol: Trouser Press, pp. 48-56.
- Pringle, R. D. 2014. A medieval graffito representating a Trébuchet in an Etruscan tomb in Corneto-Tarquinia. In: John, S. and Morton, N. eds. Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages: Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 37-46.
- Pringle, D. 2014. The crusader states. By Malcolm Barber [Book Review}. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 65(3), pp. 663-665. (10.1017/S0022046913002716)
- Pringle, R. D. 2014. The military orders in the cities of the Holy Land. In: Carraz, D. ed. Les Ordres militaires dans la ville médiévale: 1100-1350. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, pp. 79-95.
- Pringle, R. D. 2014. Crusader castles and fortifications: the Armenian connection. In: Mutafian, C. ed. La Méditerranée des Arméniens, XIIe–XVe siècle. Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, pp. 353-372.
- Pringle, R. D. 2014. A rental of hospitaller properties in twelfth-century Jerusalem. In: Edgington, S., Nicholson, H. J. and Edbury, P. W. eds. Deeds Done Beyond the Sea: Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury. Crusades Subsudia Vol. 6. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 181-196.
2013
- Pringle, R. D. 2013. The walls of Medieval Ascalon. Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant 8(1), pp. 53-56. (10.1179/1752726013Z.00000000015)
- Pringle, R. D. and Sinibaldi, M. 2013. Reports. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 145(2), pp. 160-161. (10.1179/0031032813Z.00000000055)
- Pringle, R. D. 2013. Churches, castles and landscape in the Frankish East. Variorum Collected Studies Series Vol. 1018. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Pringle, R. D. 2013. Castles and frontiers in the Latin East. In: Stringer, K. and Jotischky, A. eds. Norman Expansion: Contrasts, Connections and Continuities. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 227-239.
- Pringle, R. D. 2013. A. Pluskowski, The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: Holy War and Colonisation. Routledge: Abingdon 2013. [Book Review]. Antiquity 87, pp. 338.
- Pringle, R. D. 2013. The role of the Castellan in the Latin East. Presented at: International Meeting on "Castles of the Military Orders", Tomar, Portugal, 10-13 October 2012 Presented at Fernandes, I. C. F. ed.Castelos das Ordens Militares: Actas de Encontro Internacional, Vol. 2. Lisbon, Portugal: Direção-Geral do Património Cultural pp. 183-204.
2012
- Pringle, R. D. 2012. Wilbrand of Oldenburg's journey to Syria, Lesser Armenia, Cyprus and the Holy Land (1211–12): a new edition. Crusades 11, pp. 109-137.
- Pringle, R. D. 2012. The Order of St Thomas of Canterbury in Acre. In: Edbury, P. W. ed. Politics and Power. The Military Orders Vol. 5. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 75-82.
- Pringle, R. D. 2012. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187–1291. Crusade Texts in Translation Vol. 23. Farnham: Ashgate.
2010
- Pringle, R. D. 2010. Perceptions of castles in the Latin East. Presented at Ettel, P., Flambard Héricher, A. and McNeill, T. E. eds.Actes du colloque international de Stirling (Écosse), 2008: Château et représentations. Château Gaillard - Etudes de castellogie médiévale Vol. 24. Turnhout: Brepols
- Pringle, R. D. 2010. Castles and Churches of the Templars in the Holy Land. Militiae Christi: Handelingen van de Vereniging voor de Studie over de Tempeliers en de Hospitaalridders vzw 1, pp. 140-164.
- Pringle, R. D. 2010. The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, vol. 3. The City of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2009
- Pringle, R. D. 2009. 'Aqaba Castle in the Ottoman Period, 1517-1917. In: Peacock, A. C. S. ed. The Frontiers of the Ottoman World. Proceedings of the British Academy Vol. 156. Oxford: Oxford University Press / British Academy, pp. 95-112., (10.5871/bacad/9780197264423.003.0005)
- Pringle, R. D. 2009. The churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: a corpus. Volume 4: the cities of Acre and Tyre, together with addenda and corrigenda to vols. 1-3. The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pringle, R. D. 2009. Secular buildings in the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem: An archaeological gazetteer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kedar, B. Z. and Pringle, R. D. 2009. 1099–1187: The Lord’s Temple (Templum Domini) and Solomon’s Palace (Palatium Salomonis). In: Grabar, O. and Kedar, B. Z. eds. Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem’s Sacred Esplanade. Jamal and Rania Daniel Series in Contemporary History, Politics, Culture, and Religion of the Levant Jerusalem–Austin: Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Ecole Biblique de Jérusalem/Al-Quds University/Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute/University of Texas Press, pp. 132-49.
- Pringle, R. D. 2009. The churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A corpus, vol. 2. L-Z (excluding Tyre). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2008
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. The Layout of the Jerusalem Hospital in the Twelfth Century: Further Thoughts and Suggestions. In: Upton-Ward, J. ed. The Military Orders: On Land and by Sea., Vol. 4. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 91-110.
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. Belmont Castle (Suba). In: Stern, E., Geva, H. and Paris, A. eds. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land., Vol. 5. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, pp. 1602-1604.
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. Burj al-Ahmar (The Red Tower). In: Stern, E., Geva, H. and Paris, A. eds. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land., Vol. 5. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, pp. 1654-1655.
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. An expatriate community in Tunis, 1648-1885: St George's Protestant Cemetery and its inscriptions. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology/BAR International Series Vol. 1811. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. The churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A corpus, vol. 1. A-K (excluding Acre and Jerusalem). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. Castellology in the Latin East: an overview. Presented at: 23rd Colloque international du Château-Gaillard, Houffalize, Belgium, 4-10 September 2006 Presented at Ettel, P., Flambard Héricher, A. and McNeil, T. E. eds.Château Gaillard: Études de Castellologie médiévale, vol. 23. Bilan de recherches en castellologie. Actes du Colloque international de Houffalize (Belgique), 4–10 septembre 2006. Caen: Publications du CRAHM pp. 361-377.
- De Meulemeester, J. and Pringle, R. D. 2008. Die Burgen am Golf von ‘Aqaba. In: Piana, M. ed. Burgen und Städte der Kreuzzugzeit. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, pp. 148-158.
- De Meulemeester, J. and Pringle, R. D. 2008. Die Burg Kerak (al-Karak) in Jordanien. In: Piana, M. ed. Burgen und Städte der Kreuzzugzeit. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, pp. 336-42.
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. Castles and churches of the Templars in Syria and the Holy Land. Presented at: Internationaal Congres Tempeliers, Ieper, Belgium, 12-13 September 2008.
- Pringle, R. D. 2008. Tavola rotonda – Round Table. Presented at: Trans-Jordan in the 12th and 13th Centuries and the Frontiers of the Medieval Mediterranean, Florence, Italy, 6-8 November 2008.
2007
- Pringle, R. D. 2007. The churches of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem: A corpus. Volume 3: the city of Jerusalem. The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pringle, R. D. 2007. The churches of crusader acre: destruction and detection. In: Edbury, P. and Kalopissi-Verti, S. eds. Archaeology and the Crusades: Proceedings of the Round Table, Nicosia, 1 February 2005. Athens: Pierides Foundation, pp. 111-132.
- Pringle, R. d. 2007. The Templars in Acre, c.1150-1291. Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant, 2, pp. 29-34.
- Pringle, R. D. 2007. Notes on some inscriptions from crusader acre. In: Shagrir, I., Ellenblum, R. and Riley-Smith, J. eds. In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar.. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 191-209.
- Pringle, R. D. 2007. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Castle of Tripoli (Mont-Pèlerin). Presented at Vermeulen, U. and D'Hulster, K. eds.Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, vol. 5: Proceedings of the 11th, 12th and 13th International Colloquium organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 2002, 2003 and 2004,, Vol. 169. Peeters: Leuven–Paris–Dudley MA.: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta pp. 167-182.
2005
- Pringle, R. D. 2005. The Castles of Ayla (al-'Aqaba) in the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods. Presented at: Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras IV: 9th and 10th International Colloquium, Leuven, Belgium, May 2000, May 2001 Presented at Vermeulen, U. and Van Steenbergen, J. eds.Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras IV. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta Vol. 140. Leuven: Peeters pp. 333-353.
2002
- Pringle, R. D. 2002. Two fortified sites in Byzantine Africa: Aïn Djelloula and Henchir Sguidan. Antiquité Tardive 10, pp. 269-290.
- Lewis, J. and Pringle, R. D. 2002. Spynie Palace and the Bishops of Moray: history, architecture and archaeology. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series Vol. 21. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
