Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
@latineast.bsky.social
The SSCLE is a non profit international organization aimed to support the scholarly investigation of all aspects of the Crusades and the Latin East
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🔔 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
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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
📘 #newrelease — John D. Hosler & Stephen Bennett (eds.)
The Third Crusade (1189–1192): New Interpretations
(Boydell Press, 2025)
The Third Crusade (1189–1192): New Interpretations
(Boydell Press, 2025)
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
📘 #newrelease — John D. Hosler & Stephen Bennett (eds.)
The Third Crusade (1189–1192): New Interpretations
(Boydell Press, 2025)
The Third Crusade (1189–1192): New Interpretations
(Boydell Press, 2025)
📜 For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we’ll take a look at this beautifully illuminated manuscript of Dante’s Divina Commedia, focusing particularly on his description of the first circle of hell, Limbo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📜 For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, we’ll take a look at this beautifully illuminated manuscript of Dante’s Divina Commedia, focusing particularly on his description of the first circle of hell, Limbo.
📢 Save the Date – Hospitaller Research Forum (HRF)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
📢 Save the Date – Hospitaller Research Forum (HRF)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
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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!
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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).
Hidden within the medieval city of Laon stands one of the most remarkable surviving monuments of the Templars in northern France (Aisne).
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🏰✨ Happy #MonumentMonday!
Hidden within the medieval city of Laon stands one of the most remarkable surviving monuments of the Templars in northern France (Aisne).
Hidden within the medieval city of Laon stands one of the most remarkable surviving monuments of the Templars in northern France (Aisne).
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
🔔 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
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
October 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🔔 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
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)
(Biblioteca Estense, Mutinensis gr. 122 (α.S.5.5), fol. 293v & 294r)
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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)
(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)
Myth and Reality: Studies on the Templars and Hospitallers, Medieval Narratives, and the Trial of the Templars
(Routledge, 2025)
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
📘 #newrelease — Helen J. Nicholson
Myth and Reality: Studies on the Templars and Hospitallers, Medieval Narratives, and the Trial of the Templars
(Routledge, 2025)
Myth and Reality: Studies on the Templars and Hospitallers, Medieval Narratives, and the Trial of the Templars
(Routledge, 2025)
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
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.
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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)
(BL Add MS 42130, f.82)
October 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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)
(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)
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)
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
📖 #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)
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.”
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🎨 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...
La croisade. Une histoire partagée
(Cairo, Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Bibliothèque d’Étude 193, 2025)
www.ifao.egnet.net/publications...
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📚 #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...
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
(Oxford University Press, 2025)
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social #venice #ottomans #mediterranean #maritimehistory #crusades #medievalhistory #economicHistory
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
📚 #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
(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
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
October 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🔔 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
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)
(BnF, Département des Manuscrits, Français 786, fol. 206)
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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)
(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)
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)
September 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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)
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
📖 #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
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...
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...
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
📖 #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...
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
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
September 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📖 #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
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
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
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
🦢📖 #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
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)
(BnF, Département des Manuscrits, Français 6465, fol 284v)
September 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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)
(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
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
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 AM
🔥📖 #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
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
📍 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
September 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🏰✨ 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
📍 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
(Pics credit: Stephan Knott)
#sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #art #fourthcrusade #Constantinople #mosaic
August 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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
(Pics credit: Stephan Knott)
#sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #art #fourthcrusade #Constantinople #mosaic