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Jessalynn Byrd<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessalynn Byrd is Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary’s College, Indiana.\u2002Her research, which particularly draws upon medieval ecclesiastical literary texts, chiefly concerns themes of medieval heresy, clericalism, crusades, interfaith relations, and historical women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Myra Bom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Buck<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 <\/em>(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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marcus Bull<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcus Bull is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina. His research concerns narrative in historical texts from the medieval to early modern periods, with a focus on the Crusades. Bull co-authored The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries <\/em>(2005) and wrote The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation<\/em> (1999).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Keren Caspi-Reisfeld<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet is a Lecturer in History at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaur\u00e8s. She has studied women in military history during the Crusades and wider medieval period, and is the author of Chevaleresses: une chevalerie au f\u00e9menin<\/em> (2013), ‘La fabrique des h\u00e9ro\u00efnes’ (2009) and ‘Penth\u00e9sil\u00e9e, reine des Amazones et Preuse, une image de la femme guerri\u00e8re \u00e0 la fin du Moyen \u00c2ge’ (2004). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Niall Christie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Niall Christie is Chair of the Department of History, Latin and Political Science at Langara College in Vancouver, and an Adjunct Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Victoria. His research concerns interractions between Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages, and on Muslim women during the Crusades. Niall’s publications include ‘Fighting women in the crusading period through Muslim eyes: Transgressing expectations and facing realities?’ (2019) and ‘Noble Betrayers of their Faith, Families and Folk: Some Non-Muslim Women in Mediaeval Arabic Popular Literature’ (2012).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sue Edgington<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em> (2001).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Frankopan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em>‘ (2013), a study of influences on Anna Komnene’s writing. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yvonne Friedman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Louise Gay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Louise Gay is a PhD student in Medieval Studies at University of Toulouse Jean Jaur\u00e8s, whose research focusses on medieval French queens’ policies of war and diplomacy. She is the author of ‘Des commandements militaires f\u00e9minins en guerre sainte: Marguerite de Provence et
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Sabine Geldsetzer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sabine Geldsetzer is the author of Frauen auf Kreuzz\u00fcgen 1096-1291 <\/em>(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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marie Gu\u00e9rin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marie Gu\u00e9rin is an historian whose research concerns women in Frankish Greece. Her thesis was entitled ‘Les dames de la Mor\u00e9e franque (XIIIe-XVe si\u00e8cle): Repr\u00e9sentation, r\u00f4le et pouvoir des femmes <\/strong>de l’\u00e9lite latine en Gr\u00e8ce m\u00e9di\u00e9vale’ (2014) and she is the author of ‘\u00abFemme <\/strong>lige ou de simple hommage\u00bb-Relation des dames au pouvoir dans la principaut\u00e9 de Mor\u00e9e (xiiie-xve si\u00e8cle)’ (2017).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Natasha Hodgson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em> (2007) and co-edited Crusading and Masculinities<\/em> (2019).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Holt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Holt is a former Professor of History at Florida State College. He is the author of ‘Feminine Sexuality and the Crusades Clerical Opposition to Women as a Strategy for Crusading Success’ (2008) and ‘Between warrior and priest: the creation of a new masculine identity during the Crusades’ (2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ruth Karras<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 \u201cSodomy\u201d in the Latin East and West’ (2020), which concerns the treatment of sexuality and cross-cultural relationships in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Connor Kostick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 \u2018Eleanor of Aquitaine and the women of the Second Crusade\u2019 (2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Lambert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em> (2001) and is writing an article about medieval depictions of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Katherine Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 <\/em>(2019) and is the author of Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England <\/em>(2013).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christoph Maier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rasa Mazeika<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alan Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds who specialises in the study of the Crusades to and settlement in the Latin East and Baltic States. Murray is the author of Sex, death and the problem of single women in the armies of the First Crusade<\/em> (2016) and ‘Women in the Royal Succession of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099\u20131291)’ (2015).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Helen Nicholson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen Nicholson is a retired Professor of History who formerly worked at Cardiff University. Her research primarily concerns the military orders during the Crusades, including women’s participation in military orders and their wider involvement with the Crusades. Helen’s publications include Sybil, Queen of Jerusalem 1186-1190<\/em> (2022) and she co-edited Hospitaller women in the Middle Ages<\/em> (2006).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Daniella Park<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chloe is a PhD student attached to Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict. Her thesis is entitled Queenship in the thirteenth century Levant<\/em>. Chloe’s project explores how Frankish women in the Latin East were able to exert authority and influence during the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, and surveys the involvement of women in diplomacy, patronage, and legal systems. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Constance Rousseau<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Constance Rousseau is Professor of History at Providence College. Her published texts include ‘Home Front and Battlefield: The Gendering of Papal Crusading Policy (1095-1221)’ (2002). Constance’s wider research concerns women, family, gender history and canon law in Medieval Europe, and she co-edited Women, Marriage and Family in Medieval Christendom <\/em>(1998).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sylvia Schein<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sylvia Schein (1947-2004) was a former Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. She specialised in the history of the Latin East during the Crusades, and authored Gateway to the Heavenly City<\/em> (2003). Schein also wrote a number of articles about women’s involvement during the Crusades, including ‘Bridget of Sweden, Margery Kempe and women’s Jerusalem pilgrimages in the middle ages’ (1999) and ‘The” female-men of God” and” men who were women”: female saints and holy land pilgrimage during the Byzantine period’ (1998).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jessalynn Byrd Jessalynn Byrd is Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary’s College, Indiana.\u2002Her research, which particularly draws upon medieval ecclesiastical literary texts, chiefly concerns themes of medieval heresy, clericalism, crusades, interfaith relations, and historical women. Myra Bom Myra is a Tutor in Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. Much of her research concerns… <\/p>\n

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