- Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Manchester Metropolitan University
Founder: Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades:
https://nnscrusades.wordpress.com/about/
@nnscrusades
Main teaching and research interests:
• The crusades and the expansion of Latin Christendom
• The Byzantine Empire’s Relationship with the Latin West
• The topography of Anatolia and the Latin East
Experience
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2012–presentLecturer in Medieval History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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2011–2012Replacement Lecturer in Medieval History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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2010–2011Assistant Professor in European History, Fatih University (Istanbul)
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2009–2010Replacement Lecturer in Medieval History, National University of Ireland (Galway)
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2008–2009Tutor in Medieval History, University of Aberdeen
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2002–2009Tutor in Medieval History, University of St Andrews
Education
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2008University of St Andrews, PhD in Medieval History
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2001Manchester Metropolitan University , • B.A. with First Class Honours in Historical Studies
Publications
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2021The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany. Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-1148 (Turnhout),
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2018‘The Byzantine Conception of the Latin Barbarian and Distortion in the Greek Narratives of the Early Crusades’, Fighting for the Faith – the Many Crusades, eds. Kurt Villens Jensen, Carsten Selch Jensen & Janus Møller Jensen (Stockholm), pp. 143-73
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2015The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom, eds. Jason T. Roche & Janus Møller Jensen
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2015‘The Second Crusade: Main Debates and New Horizons’ in The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom, eds. Jason T. Roche & Janus Møller Jensen, pp. 1-32
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2015‘The Second Crusade, 1145-49: Lisbon, Damascus and the Wendish Campaigns’, History Compass 13 pp. 599-609
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2015‘Causes Essay’, in The Crusades to the Holy Land: the Essential Reference Guide, ed. Alan Murray, pp. xix-xxv
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2015‘Consequences Essay’, in The Crusades to the Holy Land, The Essential Reference Guide, ed. Alan Murray, pp. xxv-xxix
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2015‘King Conrad III of Germany in the Byzantine Empire: a Foil for Native Imperial Virtue’ in The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom, eds. Jason T. Roche & Janus Møller Jensen, pp. 183-216
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2011‘Crusades in the Holy Land and Egypt (Causes)’, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society, ABC-CLIO
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2011‘Crusades in the Holy Land and Egypt (Consequences)’, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society, ABC-CLIO
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2010‘Surveying the Aspect of the Medieval West Anatolian Town’, Al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 22 pp. 249-257
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2009‘In the Wake of Mantzikert: the First Crusade and the Alexian Reconquest of Western Anatolia’,, History: The Journal of the Historical Association 94 pp. 135-53
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2008‘Niketas Choniates as a Source for the Second Crusade in Anatolia’, in Ebru Altan et al, eds., Festschrift in Memory of Prof. Dr. Iþýn Demirkent, pp. 379-88
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2006‘Conrad III and the Second Crusade: Retreat from Dorylaion?’, Crusades, 5 pp. 85-97
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