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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 18h

🔔 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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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 3d

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)

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 10d

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)

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 17d

📖 #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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 19d

📖 #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...

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 20d

📖 #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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 22d

🦢📖 #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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 24d

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)

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 28d

🔥📖 #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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Sep 8

🏰✨ 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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Aug 18

⚔️📜🏰 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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Aug 18

🎉 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! 🚀

Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉 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...

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lorenzomercuri.bsky.social @lorenzomercuri.bsky.social · Jul 27

📢 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]

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Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social · Jul 26

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!

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎉📖 #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)

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Jul 5

📖🌍✨ 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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · Jun 9

🎉📜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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · May 23

🎉📖 #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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · May 19

🎉📜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

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · May 16

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · May 15

🎉📖 #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

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Gawain's Mum @gawainsmum.bsky.social · May 12

(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...

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