Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
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The SSCLE is a non profit international organization aimed to support the scholarly investigation of all aspects of the Crusades and the Latin East
For this #MonumentsMonday, we have some more pictures from the trip to the Templar Castle in Tomar, notably from the parts of the citadel built in the modern period when the site came into the hands of the Order of Christ. #crusade #crusades #academia #scholarship #sscle
📢 Conference Announcement Registration is now open for Rethinking Innocent IV and the Crusades: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry, an international hybrid conference taking place in London on 24–25 September 2026.
Happy #MonumentMonday! Next up from our conference trip to Tomar is the remarkable Charola in the Templar castle. #crusade #crusades #academia #scholarship
Happy #Monumentmonday! We will start sharing some impressions from the conference trip to Tomar in the coming weeks. First up is Santa Maria do Olival. #sscle2026
🎊 Congratulations to Glauber Wisniewski, winner of the SSCLE Best Paper Prize 2026, presented at the 2026 SSCLE Conference in Porto. The prize was awarded to his "Jewish Participation in the Templar Occupation of Lleida: Economy and Society on the Aragonese Frontier (12th Century)".
🎊 Congratulations to Ann E. Zimo, winner of the SSCLE Best First Book Prize 2026. The prize was awarded for her In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024). www.sscle.org/post/sscle-a...
🎊 Congratulations to Benjamin Z. Kedar and Thomas W. Smith, joint winners of the SSCLE Best Book Prize 2026, presented at the 2026 SSCLE Conference in Porto. Read the committee's remarks here: www.sscle.org/post/sscle-a...
📚 #newrelease – Writing in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem: Inscription and Graffiti in a Multilingual and Multigraphic Perspective, edited by Estelle Ingrand-Varenne & Clément Dussart (Brepols, 2026) www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
📚 #newrelease – Thomas Smith, The Fifth Crusade: A History of the Epic Campaign to Conquer Egypt (Yale University Press, 2026) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
📚 #newrelease – Gaëlle Audéon, La Septième croisade et le vrai Louis IX (Éditions Harmattan, 2026) www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/li...
📚 #newrelease – Encounters: The Crusades in 50 Objects, edited by Cathleen A. Fleck, Elizabeth Lapina, Richard A. Leson & Vardit Ruth Shotten (Routledge, June 2026) www.routledge.com/Encounters-T...
📚 #newrelease – Mustafa Banister and Fadi Ragheb, eds., From Cairo to Jerusalem and Beyond: Studies of the Later Islamic Middle Period in Honor of Linda Stevens Northrup (Leiden: Brill, Islamic History and Civilization Series, 2026) brill.com/display/titl...
🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Co-Social Media Editor This week we introduce Lorenzo Mercuri, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome, Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris, and Co-Social Media Editor of the SSCLE.
For today’s #MaterialCultureMonday, we will take a look at these fantastic floor tiles from the Abbey of Chertsey, depicting a fictitious duel between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. (Pic credit: The Trustees of the British Museum)
📚 #newrelease – Jessalynn Lea Bird, Crusade and Reform in Latin Christendom: The Paris Masters against Heresy and Corruption, c.1179–c.1254 (Oxford University Press, June 2026)
🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Co-Social Media Editor This week we introduce Stephan Knott, PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota, and Social Media Editor of the SSCLE – which means he is, in part, responsible for the very series you are reading.
For today’s #manuscriptmonday, we turn to a striking 15th-century depiction of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, preserved in a manuscript of Sébastien Mamerot’s Les passages d’Outremer and illuminated by Jean Colombe.
📢 The final programme for the 11th International Conference of the SSCLE (Porto, 29 June – 3 July 2026) is now available online! 🔗 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com/academicprog... A printed copy will be distributed upon registration. See you in Porto!
🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Conference Organiser This week we introduce Joana Lencart, PhD Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Culture, Space and Memory (CITCEM) at the University of Porto.
For today’s #manuscriptmonday, we will take a look at the Battle of Ramla (1105) as depicted in this 13th-century continuation of William of Tyre. (Paris, BnF, Français 2824, fol. 64r)
📚 #newrelease – Nicholas Coureas, King Henry II of Cyprus, 1285–1324 (Routledge, 2026) www.routledge.com/King-Henry-I...
📚 #newrelease – Nicholas Morton, The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East (Basic Books, 2026) basicbooks.uk/titles/nicho... @nicmorton.bsky.social
📚 #newrelease – Penser les croisades tardives : diversités, modalités, postérités. Mélanges en l'honneur de Norman Housley. Edited by Stefan K. Stantchev and Benjamin Weber. Croisades tardives, 10 – Presses universitaires du Midi, 2026 pum.univ-tlse2.fr/produit/pens...
🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Conference Co-Organiser Paula Pinto Costa is Full Professor in the Department of History and Political and International Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto.
For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we will take a look at the Sächsische Weltchronik, a chronicle written in German prose. The image depicts Frederick Barbarossa drowning in the Saleph River on his way to Outremer as part of the Third Crusade. (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Ms. germ. fol. 129, 113v)
For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we will take a look at the Sächsische Weltchronik. The image depicts German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowning in the Saleph River on his way to Outremer as part of the Third Crusade. (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Ms. germ. fol. 129, 113v)
📚 #newrelease in paperback – Thomas W. Smith, Rewriting the First Crusade. Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages. Crusading in Context, 6 – Boydell & Brewer, 2026.
For today's #ManuscriptMonday, we turn to Sébastien Mamerot's Passages d'outremer.
🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Committee Member This week we introduce Kurt Villads Jensen, Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University.
For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we will take a look at Jérôme Maurand’s “Itinéraire d'Antibes à Constantinonple.” In 1544, Jérôme accompanied a Ottoman fleet from Marseille to Istanbul. (Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, MS 1777 & Itinéraire, ed. Léon Dorez (Paris:1901).