📢 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...

In this episode, I talk to Dr Ahmed Sheir, Postdoctoral Researcher @lmu.de in Munich, about his book on Prester John, a mighty a legendary Christian priest-king whose kingdom lay somewhere in the East… @latineast.bsky.social @socmedimedit.bsky.social youtu.be/KEqhh09x690?...

The Legend that Moved Armies

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📚 #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...

Immeasurable thanks to the SSCLE @latineast.bsky.social and the University of Porto for a brilliant and highly memorable conference!

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A few final pics from the Convento de Cristo, Tomar, Portugal last week. Serene and peaceful cloisters after the sensory overload of the church ...

Here beginneth pics from my two-week medieval conference-a-thon! First up, from SSCLE Porto @latineast.bsky.social, this huge wooden pipe in the round church of the Convento de Cristo, Tomar, Portugal. According to our guide, it's 12th-14th C and created a low drone to accompany the monks' chanting.

📚 #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...

Medieval warriors are often portrayed as brave, brutal and impulsive, but not strategic. In this blog Steve Tibble shows otherwise. Although few written plans survive, their actions reveal a clear and consistent vision for survival yalebooks.co.uk/the-hidden-s... #MedievalSky @latineast.bsky.social

The Hidden Strategy of the Crusader States

Medieval warriors are often portrayed as brave, brutal and impulsive, but not especially strategic. In this blogpost, Steve Tibble, author of The Crusader

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Our publishing manager Chris Vanden Borre is attending the @latineast.bsky.social 11th quadrennial Conference in Porto this week. Make sure to drop by, discover our newest titles and learn more about publishing with us! www.brepols.net/authors #Crusades #MedievalSky #Crusading #sslce2026

🥳 Congrats to Thomas Smith who won the Best Book Award for Rewriting the First Crusade awarded every 4 years by the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East! Now available in paperback too! 👉 buff.ly/YJ7Ls6y @latineast.bsky.social #IMC2026 #MedievalSky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

📚 #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...

The SSCLE Conference t-shirt is on sale now! Pre-order it while stock last and pick it up at registration. £18 online, €20 cash at the conference. If you haven't registered yet, now is a good time. You can add your t-shirt to your registration! www.crusadespayment.online/registration...

🗓️ #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)

We are joined by Professor Jonathan Harris (Royal Holloway) to discuss how a fragile alliance reshaped the eastern Mediterranean and why it ended in one of the greatest disasters in medieval history. @latineast.bsky.social @socmedimedit.bsky.social youtu.be/8MYUOM-rctk?...

The Forgotten Empire Behind the Crusades

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📚 #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...