I am a specialist in the following areas:
1. Medieval Warfare
2. The Crusades
3. Monasticism
4. Medieval Christianity
5. The Knights Templar/Hospitaller
6. The history of the Medieval Mediterranean
7. The medieval relationship between Christianity and Islam
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