Thomas Asbridge

Thomas Asbridge Tom Asbridge or Thomas S. Asbridge (born 16 April 1969) is an English professor of medieval history with a focus on the Crusades.

Life

Asbridge studied at Cardiff University Ancient History and Medieval history with the BA degree. His doctoral thesis at the Department Royal Holloway, University of London dealt with the history of the Crusader Principality of Antioch State. Then taught Asbridge at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and at the University of Reading.

Since 1999 teaches Asbridge at Queen Mary University in London specializing in the Middle Ages, Crusades and Islam and the West.

Publications (selection)

  • The Crusades, from the English by Susanne Held; Klett- Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2010 ISBN 978-3-608-94648-2
  • The First Crusade: A New History, Freee Press, Simon & Schuster, London 2004
  • Alice of Antioch. A Case Study of Female Power in the Twelfth Century, pp. 29 - 47, in: P. Edbury and Jonathan Phillips ( eds. ): The Experience of Crusading: Defining the Crusader Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003 → Alice of Antioch
  • The Creation of the Principality of Antioch 1098 - 1130, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2000
  • Together with SB Edgington: Walter the Chancellor's "The Antiochene Wars": A Translation and Commentary, pp. 1-272; Ashgate, Aldershot 1999
  • The Significance and Causes of the Battle of the Field of Blood, pp. 301-316, in: Journal of Medieval History, Vol 24.3 (1997) → Battle of Ager Sanguinis and Roger of Salerno
  • The Jabal al- Summaq and the Principality of Antioch: Jonathan Phillips ( Ed. ): The First Crusade: Origins and Impact, Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997
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