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
2016
Encountering Islam on the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press
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
Templar and Hospitaller attitudes towards Islam in the Holy Land during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: some historiographical reflections, Levant
2015
The Saljuq Turks’ conversion to Islam: the crusading sources, Al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean
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
‘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
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