Dr Nicholas Morton

Experience

• –present
  Lecturer in History , Nottingham Trent University

Education

• 2008 
  Royal Holloway, PhD

Publications

• 2022
  The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East, Basic Books
• 2020
  The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, Oxford University Press
• 2018
  The Field of Blood: The battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East , Basic Books
• 2016
  Encountering Islam on the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press
• 2015
  Templar and Hospitaller attitudes towards Islam in the Holy Land during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: some historiographical reflections, Levant
• 2015
  Why did the Crusades ultimately fail to retain Christian control of the Holy Land?, The Crusades to the Holy Land: The essential reference guide, ed. A. Murray
• 2015
  The Saljuq Turks’ conversion to Islam: the crusading sources, Al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean
• 2014
  ‘Arab Muslim reactions to the advent of the First Crusade (co-authored with Professor John France), Warfare, crusade and conquest in the Middle Ages
• 2014
  Encountering the Turks: the First Crusaders’ foreknowledge of their enemy: Some preliminary findings, Crusading and warfare in the Middle Ages: realities and representations, essays in honour of John France, ed. S. John and N. Morton
• 2014
  Perceptions of Islam in William of Tyre’s Historia, Deeds done beyond the sea: essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the military orders presented to Peter Edbury, ed. S. Edgington
• 2013
  The Medieval Military Orders, Routledge
• 2011
  In Subsidium: The declining contribution of Germany and Eastern Europe to the crusades to the Holy Land, 1187-1291, German Historical Institute bulletin
• 2010
  The defence of the Holy Land and the memory of the Maccabees, Journal of Medieval History
• 2009
  The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291, Boydell