Myra is a Tutor in Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. Much of her research concerns female members of military orders during the Crusades, and she is the author of Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe (2022).

Andrew Buck is a Lecturer in History at Cardiff University. He is an historian of the Crusades and the Latin East, with a particular focus on the Principality of Antioch. Andrew is the author of The Principality of Antioch and its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century (2017) and has authored a number of texts on women in the Latin East, including ‘Women in the principality of Antioch: power, status, and social agency’ (2020) and ‘William of Tyre, femininity, and the problem of the Antiochene Princesses’ (2019).

Keren Caspi-Reisfeld is an Israeli historian of gender history during the Crusades. Caspi-Reisfeld is best known as the author of ‘Women Warriors during the Crusades’ (2002).

Sue Edgington is an Honary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Her research concerns the Crusades and the Latin East, and discovering, translating, researching and editing historical texts is a major interest of hers. Sue co-edited Gendering the Crusades (2001).

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Worcester College, Oxford, and specialises in historical exchanges between peoples in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Asia. Frankopan is particularly interested in the Byzantine Empire, and authored ‘Turning Latin into Greek: Anna Komnene and the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi‘ (2013), a study of influences on Anna Komnene’s writing.

Yvonne Friedman is Professor of General History and of Land of Israel Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Yvonne’s speciality is cross-cultural religious contact, conflict and peace in the Latin East, medieval Anti-Semitism and pilgrimage. She is also interested in women’s experiences of crusades and conflict, and is the author of ‘Captivity and ransom: The experience of women’ (2017) and ‘Weak and Violated? The Experience of Women’ (2002).

Louise Gay is a PhD student in Medieval Studies at University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, whose research focusses on medieval French queens’ policies of war and diplomacy. She is the author of ‘Des commandements militaires féminins en guerre sainte: Marguerite de Provence et
Sagar al-Durr lors de la septième croisade’ (2020).

Sabine Geldsetzer is the author of Frauen auf Kreuzzügen 1096-1291 (2003), the first full-length survey of women’s participation in Crusading in the Latin East. Geldsetzer’s book is based on her PhD thesis, and includes a gazetteer of notable female participants in the Crusades.

Marie Guérin is an historian whose research concerns women in Frankish Greece. Her thesis was entitled ‘Les dames de la Morée franque (XIIIe-XVe siècle): Représentation, rôle et pouvoir des femmes de l’élite latine en Grèce médiévale’ (2014) and she is the author of ‘«Femme lige ou de simple hommage»-Relation des dames au pouvoir dans la principauté de Morée (xiiie-xve siècle)’ (2017).

Natasha Hodgson is a Senior Lecturer in History at Nottingham Trent University, and is the Director of the university’s Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict. Her research concerns military, social, political, cultural, economic, textual and material conflict during the Crusades, and in particular, their social, cultural and gender history. She is the author of Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative (2007) and co-edited Crusading and Masculinities (2019).

Ruth Karras is Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin. Her research concerns women, gender, sexuality, slavery and prostitution across Medieval Europe. Ruth’s publications include ‘The Regulation of “Sodomy” in the Latin East and West’ (2020), which concerns the treatment of sexuality and cross-cultural relationships in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Connor Kostick is an author and historian concerned with the social structure and military history of the Crusades. He is the author of ‘Women and the First Crusade: prostitutes or pilgrims?’ (2005), and ‘Eleanor of Aquitaine and the women of the Second Crusade’ (2010).

Sarah is Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths University of London. Her research focusses on gender, ethnicity and identity during the Crusades and in Medieval Europe more widely. Sarah co-edited Gendering the Crusades (2001) and is writing an article about medieval depictions of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem.

Katherine Lewis is Student Course Leader for History at the University of Huddersfield. Her research concerns later medieval gender, religious and cultural history, and she is particularly interested in medieval masculinity and religiousity. Katherine co-edited Crusading and Masculinities (2019) and is the author of Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England (2013).

Christoph is Lecturer in History at the University of Zurich. His research concerns the history of sermons, saints and relics during the Crusades, as well as aspects of gender history. His published articles include ‘Propaganda and masculinity. Gendering the crusades in thirteenth-century sermons’ (2019) and ‘The roles of women in the crusade movement: A survey’ (2004).

Rasa Mazeika is an historian of religious conversion, religion and societal relationships in medieval Lithuania during the Baltic Crusades. She is the author of ‘`Nowhere was the Fragility of their Sex Apparent’: Women Warriors in the Baltic Crusade Chronicles’ (1998) and ‘Filia Belial and warrior Virgin: women in the Baltic wars in the Middle Ages’ (1994).