📢 Save the Date – Hospitaller Research Forum (HRF) 🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)

My 2nd collection of previously-published articles is now out! Further book details (and ordering) here: www.routledge.com/Myth-and-Reality-Studies-on-the-Templars-and-Hospitallers-Medieval-Narratives-and-the-Trial-of-the-Templars/Nicholson/p/book/9781032565712 . See the image for contents!

🏰✨ Happy #MonumentMonday! Hidden within the medieval city of Laon stands one of the most remarkable surviving monuments of the Templars in northern France (Aisne).

🔔 CFP | SSCLE 2026 Crossing Seas, Crossing Cultures 📍 Univ. of Porto 🗓️ 29 June–3 July 2026 Send proposals (papers, sessions, roundtables) 📩 [email protected] 🗓️ 15 Sept–15 Nov 2025 🔗 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com

For today’s #manuscriptmonday, we will take a look at the 15th-century Codex Mutinensis graecus 122, housed in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena. It contains portraits of nearly every Roman emperor. (Biblioteca Estense, Mutinensis gr. 122 (α.S.5.5), fol. 293v & 294r)

📘 #newrelease — Helen J. Nicholson Myth and Reality: Studies on the Templars and Hospitallers, Medieval Narratives, and the Trial of the Templars (Routledge, 2025)

A few days left to respond to my call for papers for the @latineast.bsky.social conference in Porto next year - expressions of interest for papers on modern uses of the crusades welcome by 4 Nov.

Happy #ManuscriptMonday, everyone! Today, we are proud to present the Luttrell Psalter, a remarkable illuminated manuscript from the 14th century. The two figures at the bottom are said to be Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. (BL Add MS 42130, f.82)

📖 #newrelease by Abbès Zouache Mémorer la croisade. Édition et traduction annotée d’al-Ḥarīrī, Kitāb al-Iʿlām wa-l-tabyīn fī ḫurūǧ al-Faranǧ al-malāʿīn ʿalā bilād al-muslimīn (Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Textes arabes et études islamiques 64, 2025)

🎨 For today’s #MasterpieceMonday, we turn to one of the most evocative canvases from the Salles des Croisades at the Château de Versailles: François-Édouard Picot’s “Guy de Lusignan, roi de Jérusalem et de Chypre.”

📚 #newrelease by Abbès Zouache! La croisade. Une histoire partagée (Cairo, Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Bibliothèque d’Étude 193, 2025) www.ifao.egnet.net/publications...

📚 #newrelease by Stefan K. Stantchev - Venice, the Ottomans, and the Sea (1381–1517) (Oxford University Press, 2025) global.oup.com/academic/pro... @oxfordunipress.bsky.social #venice #ottomans #mediterranean #maritimehistory #crusades #medievalhistory #economicHistory

🔔 CFP | SSCLE 2026 Crossing Seas, Crossing Cultures 📍 Univ. of Porto 🗓️ 29 June–3 July 2026 Send proposals (papers, sessions, roundtables) 📩 [email protected] 🗓️ 15 Sept–15 Nov 2025 🔗 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com

For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we turn to a vivid illumination from the Grandes Chroniques de France (Paris, BnF, Français 786, fol. 206), depicting the Battle of Antioch (1098) during the First Crusade. (BnF, Département des Manuscrits, Français 786, fol. 206)

Happy #ManuscriptMonday, everyone! Today we’re taking a look at Paolino Veneto’s Chronologia magna and the maps of the Holy Land it contains (Bnf, Lat. 4939, fols. 10r-11r)

📖 #Newrelease! Military Orders and Crusades: Essays Presented to Helen J. Nicholson (Routledge, 2025), ed. Peter Edbury & Paul Webster. 👉 www.routledge.com/Military-Ord... @gawainsmum.bsky.social

📖 #newrelease! Military Orders and Crusades: Essays Presented to Helen J. Nicholson (Routledge, 2025), ed. Peter Edbury & Paul Webster. 22 essays honouring Nicholson’s groundbreaking work on #Crusades, #MilitaryOrders, women & the #LatinEast. 👉 www.routledge.com/Military-Ord...

📖 #newrelease by Yvonne Friedman! Interludes of Peace in the Medieval Latin East. Perceptions and Practices (Routledge, 2025) www.routledge.com/Interludes-o... #latineast #crusades #peace #medievalhistory #crusaderstates #medievalstudies #scholarship #newbook #academia #routledge #historiography

🦢📖 #newrelease translated by Carol Sweetenham! The Swan Knight Texts of the Old French Crusade Cycle (Routledge, 2025) 👉 www.routledge.com/The-Swan-Kni... #crusades #oldfrench #medieval #literature #crusadecycle #swanKnight #medievalhistory #philology #textedition #academia #newbook #scholarship

For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we will take another look at the Grandes Chroniques de France. This illumination depicts the death of King Louis IX in 1270. Saint Louis died of dysentery while participating in the Eighth Crusade in Tunis. (BnF, Département des Manuscrits, Français 6465, fol 284v)

🔥📖 #newrelease by Antonio Musarra! L’assedio di Gerusalemme. 1099. I crociati conquistano la Città Santa (Carocci, 2025) 👉 www.carocci.it/prodotto/las... #jerusalem #firstcrusade #crusades #middleages #historiography #medievalhistory #academia #newbook #scholarship #carocci #sscle #medievisti

🏰✨ Happy #MonumentMonday! 📍 Tour Bichat, Hospitallers’ house in Paris (destroyed mid-19th century) 🖋️ Drawing, anonymous, Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris (inv. D.11937-1) #sscle #monumentmonday #hospitallers #paris #medieval #middleages #latineast #militaryorders

For today’s #MosaicMonday, we will revisit the mosaics of the Fourth Crusade in San Giovanni Evangelista in Ravenna. (Pics credit: Stephan Knott) #sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #art #fourthcrusade #Constantinople #mosaic

⚔️📜🏰 Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this striking illumination from the Passages d’Outremer, showing the Siege of Antioch (1097–1098) during the First Crusade. 🖋️ BnF, Français 5594, fol. 59v @labnf.bsky.social @gallicabnf.bsky.social

🎉 SSCLE Election Results 🎉 We’re delighted to share the results of the recent SSCLE Committee elections! A total of 180 ballots were cast — thank you to everyone who took part. Here’s to another exciting chapter for the SSCLE! 🚀

Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Or rather… welcome to #MatthewParisMonday — it’s official now! Today’s highlight from Matthew Paris’ Chronica maiora is one of the most iconic medieval images: two Templars sharing a single horse. 📖 Corpus Christi College, MS 026: fol. 110v

🎉 New Release Alert! 📘 Benjamin Kedar, Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem: Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades (Cornell University Press, 2025) www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

📢 Call for Papers | #SSCLE2026 📍 Session at the SSCLE 11th Conference, Porto, 29 June–3 July 2026 🛡️ The Military Religious Orders in Context: Between Integration and Autonomy 📅 Submit your abstract and CV by 15 October to: 📩 [email protected] 📩 [email protected]

The "Crusader" church at Emmaus (kingdom of Jerusalem) The Franks often reused existing stonework in their buildings including in this case a block carrying the insignia of the Tenth Roman legion!

🎉📖 #newrelease in #openaccess edited by Amar S. Baadj and Ahmed M. Sheir! The Historiography and Memory of the Crusades in the Modern Arab World, edited by Amar S. Baadj and Ahmed M. Sheir (Trivent Publishing, July 2025)

📖🌍✨ Crossing Seas, Crossing Cultures ✨🌍📖 The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE) is delighted to announce its 11th International Conference, to be held at the 📍 Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Porto 📅 29 June – 3 July 2026

🎉📜Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this wonderful illumination that depicts the Funeral of King Baldwin I in the Passages d'Outremer BnF, Français 5594, fol. 118v @labnf.bsky.social @gallicabnf.bsky.social #sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art

🎉📖 #newrelease edited by Stefan K. Stantchev! Economic Warfare and the Crusades, edited by Stefan K. Stantchev (Presses universitaires du Midi, 2025) pum.univ-tlse2.fr/produit/econ... #latineast #middleages #crusades #crusade #academia #scholarship #sscle #newbook #historian

🎉📜Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this wonderful illumination that depicts the siege of Jerusalem (1099) in the Passages d'Outremer BnF, Français 5594, fol. 88 @gallicabnf.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social #sscle #middleages #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art #illumination

🎉📖 #newrelease by Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale! Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale, A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre. The 1266 Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers (Cornell University Press, 2025) #latineast #middleages #crusades #crusade #academia #scholarship

(Post)graduate students and early career scholars studying the Templars may be interested in this essay prize sponsored by Ordines Militares: apcz.umk.pl/OM/announcem...

🎉📜Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this wonderful illumination that depicts the French King Louis IX imprisoned BnF, Français 5716, fol. 127v @labnf.bsky.social @gallicabnf.bsky.social #sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art

Dear Friends, We write with great sadness that John H. Pryor passed away in late March. John was not only a distinguished scholar, but also a generous mentor, and an inspiring educator. He will be deeply missed in our community.

🎉📖 #newrelease by Mats Homann! Mats Homann, Der Deutsche Orden und die Wahrnehmung der eigenen Handlungsspielräume. Vom Ersten Thorner Frieden (1411) bis zum Vertrag vom Melnosee (1422), (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025) #latineast #middleages #crusades #academia #scholarship

Medieval Inscriptions in Jerusalem’s Cenacle Reveal Diversity of Pilgrimage www.medievalists.net/2025/04/medi... #medieval

In memoriam: 'El marques valens e pros', murdered on this day in Tyre: @gawainsmum.bsky.social @alienore.bsky.social @rorymaclellan.bsky.social @latineast.bsky.social @mjhorswell.bsky.social dai.ly/xac673

🎉📜Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this wonderful illumination that depicts the Siege of Antioch (1097-1098) BnF, Français 779, fol. 37v #sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art #antioch #illumination

🎉📖 #newrelease by Chiara Cecalupo! Chiara Cecalupo, An Archaeologist in Rome at the Service of the Order: Letters from the Hospitaller Grand Master to Antonio Bosio (1604–1629) (Routledge), March 2025

For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we have another depiction of Jerusalem for you—this time from the 15th-century Hours of René of Anjou. #sscle #middleages #medieval #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art #jerusalem (British Library, Egerton MS 1070, fol. 5r)

Happy Monday and welcome to our first installment of #MosaicMonday! Today we will take a look at the mosaics of San Giovanni Evangelista in Ravenna.

🎉📖 #newrelease by Erin L. Jordan! Erin L. Jordan, The Women of Antioch. Gender and Political Culture, 1095-1204 (Routledge 2025) #latineast #middleages #crusades #crusade #crusade #academia #scholarship #sscle #latineast #crusades #newbook #historian #medievalhistory #medieval #middleages

🏰🎉🏛 Happy #MonumentMonday from Asti (Northern Italy)! We will take a look at the Church of San Pietro in Consavia. It was built by the local bishop, Landolfo di Vergiate, after his return from the First Crusade, but in the second half of the XII century kt was entrusted to the Knights of St. John.

🎉📖 #newrelease! Mercenaries and Crusaders, ed. by Attila Bárány (Magyarország a középkori Európában, February 2024) #latineast #middleages #crusades #crusade #crusade #academia #scholarship #sscle #latineast #crusades #newbook #historian #medievalhistory #medieval #middleages

🎉📖 #newrelease by Francesca Petrizzo! Francesca Petrizzo, The Road to Antioch and Jerusalem. The Crusader Pilgrimage of the Monte Cassino Chronicle (Routledge Books , 2024) #latineast #middleages #crusades #crusade #crusade #academia #scholarship #sscle

🎉📖 #newrelease by Aleksander Pluskowski! Aleksander Pluskowski, The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation (Reaktion Books, 2024) #latineast #middleages #crusades #crusade #crusade #sscle #latineast #crusades #newbook #historian #medievalhistory #medieval