🗓️ #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)

NEW EPISODE: SIEGE WARFARE We are joined by Dr Thomas Brosset (Université de Lorraine) to discuss his recent PhD thesis, which using quantitative analysis to explore siege warfare in twelfth-century Syria and Mesopotamia. @latineast.bsky.social @socmedimedit.bsky.social youtu.be/aQOAn6tVjWo?...

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).

🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Officer for Postgraduate Members This week we introduce Anna Gutgarts, Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Haifa, and Officer for Postgraduate Members of the SSCLE.

In 1176, Maurice de Sully, Bishop of Paris, confirmed the donation of a house near the Petit-Pont in Paris and several vineyards made by Stephen of Meudon and his wife Lucy, who set out for Jerusalem “causa visitandi sepulcrum".

🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Website Editor This week we introduce Charlotte Gauthier, Research Assistant at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, Visiting Lecturer at City St George's, University of London, and Website Editor of the SSCLE.

This fifteenth-century map of Jerusalem comes from an illuminated copy of Ptolemy's Cosmographia, translated into Latin by Jacobus Angelus and produced in Florence in the second half of the fifteenth century.

📘 #newrelease – Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium. The Deeds of the Franks who Conquered Jerusalem, 1095–1106 Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Thomas W. Smith Oxford Medieval Texts – Oxford University Press, 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Bulletin Editor This week we introduce Ahmed M. A. Sheir, Research Associate in Medieval History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich and Affiliated Assistant Professor at Damanhour University, Egypt, and Bulletin Editor of the SSCLE.

For this week's #ManuscriptMonday: a Parisian manuscript of 1396 captures the siege of Damietta in 1249 in a striking sketch-like illumination, with troops in pointed helmets storming a fortified tower while its defenders look on from above. (Paris, BnF, Français 314, f.418v)

youtu.be/PciqGz5JYC8?... @latineast.bsky.social @socmedimedit.bsky.social

📘 #newrelease – La quarta crociata: i fatti e le narrazioni by Massimo Sbarbaro (Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS, 2026) ISBN: 978-961-7276-04-6 www.zrs-kp.si/publikacija/...

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-Editor of Crusades This week we introduce Christoph T. Maier, Privatdozent in Medieval History at the University of Zurich, and Co-Editor of Crusades, the journal of the SSCLE, together with Iris Shagrir.

For today's #monumentmonday, we are looking at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. The interior features, among other things, these gorgeous Eastern Roman style mosaics depicting scenes from the life of King Louis IX of France.

📘 #newrelease – Digital Medieval Studies – Crusaders and Computers Edited by Laura K. Morreale and Sean Gilsdorf (Arc Humanities Press, 2026) www.arc-humanities.org/978180270291...

🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Co-Editor of Crusades This week we introduce Iris Shagrir, Professor of Medieval History and Rector (Provost) of the Open University of Israel, and Co-Editor of Crusades, the journal of the SSCLE.

For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we turn to a thirteenth-century vision of some pilgrims visiting the Tomb of Christ in the Holy Sepulchre Church as imagined in a French manuscript. (BnF, Département des Manuscrits, Français 2825, f. 1)

youtu.be/Z6xt1waLZKw?... @socmedimedit.bsky.social @latineast.bsky.social

🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Treasurer This week we introduce Danielle Park, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York [@UniOfYork], and Treasurer of the SSCLE.

Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this miniature depicting the arrival of Richard the Lionheart at Jaffa in 1192, from a manuscript at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (Paris, BnF, Français 9083, fol. 273)

The updated Academic Programme for the SSCLE Porto 2026 Conference is now available 📚🌍 Explore the full timetable here: 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com/academicprog...

🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Secretary This week we introduce Nikolaos Chrissis, Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Secretary of the SSCLE. 👉 Stay tuned every Tuesday as we introduce the people behind SSCLE.

Happy #Manuscriptmonday everyone! Today, we will venture into the world of printed books. Besides a depiction of the Americas, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia also features this fantastic illustration of 16th-century Constantinople. (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Res/2 Geo.u. 51)

🏰 New on the SSCLE blog! Dr Micaela Sinibaldi (University of Warsaw) introduces the "Karak Castle and Town Documentation Project", an international effort to advance our understanding of the medieval history of the castle and town of Karak, southern Jordan.

🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our President We open our #TeamTuesday series – running every Tuesday until #Porto2026 – with Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and President of the SSCLE.

For today's #ManuscriptMonday, we turn to a remarkable encounter depicted in a late fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript preserved at the Bibliothèque municipale in Lyon.

For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we turn further eastwards, to the Mongol Ilkhanate of Persia, to recount the curious story of the Ilkhan Ghazan, who is said to have taken Jerusalem in 1300 and to have contemplated restoring it to the Franks.

📖✨ #newissue out now! Crusades, Volume 24, Issue 2 (2025) 👉 Explore the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcru20/c... #crusades #middleages #history #sscle #crusadingstudies #medievalhistory #historiography #newissue #scholarship

For today’s #ManuscriptMonday we revisit the moment that crystallised crusading memory: Pope Urban II preaching the Crusade at Clermont, as depicted in the 15th-century illumination from Sébastien Mamerot’s Les passages d’Outremer. (BnF, Français 5594, f. 19)

For today’s #ManuscriptMonday we sail to Egypt with a vivid scene of the disembarkation of Louis IX at Damietta, as imagined in a 16th-century illumination. (BnF, Français 24948, f. 56v) #medieval #middleages #manuscript #illumination #medievalart #crusades #louisIX #egypt

📘 #newrelease – Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (ed.), Les discours sur la croisade. Mémoire, fiction, recours à l’antique, rhétorique et idéologie (XIIe–XVIe siècle) – @brepols.net 2026 (Recherches sur les Réceptions de l’Antiquité, vol. 5)

For today’s #manuscriptmonday, we will take a look at the “Livre des Assises de la baisse Court” of the Kingdom of Cyprus. (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.gall. 51)

For today’s #manuscriptmonday we will take another look at “Li rommans de Godefroy de Buillon et de Salehadin.” The illustration depicts the Siege of Antioch by Kerbogha in 1098. (BnF, Français 22495, 50v.)

📘 #newrelease – Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica Yearbook for the Study of the Military Orders Vol. 30 (2025) Open access issue: apcz.umk.pl/OM/issue/vie... Studies and Articles from the 22nd Ordines Militares Conference

📜 For #ManuscriptMonday, we turn to a luxury codex commissioned by Guillaume Caoursin, vice-chancellor of the Order of the Knights of St John in the last quarter of the XV century.