🗓️ #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)
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📘 #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
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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!
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🗓️ #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)
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🗓️ #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)
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🗓️ #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)
We also encourage you to take note of the Student Paper Prize 🏆 – details are available on the website.
We very much look forward to welcoming you to Porto for what promises to be an exciting and engaging conference.
#SSCLE2026 #Crusades #AcademicConference #Porto
Across five days, the programme features parallel sessions, keynote lectures, and a wide variety of panels covering crusading ideology and practice, regional and comparative perspectives, material culture, and cross-cultural interactions.
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)
Season 2025 brought a particularly exciting find: the original flagstone floor of the Crusader castle chapel and fragments of its vivid painted plaster.
Read the full report here 👉 www.sscle.org/post/the-kar...
The project combines Building Archaeology, photogrammetry, geological surveys, and excavation to investigate structures dating from the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods.
🏰 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.
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The Patriarch then celebrated Mass at Notre-Dame in Paris on 17 January 1185, before pressing on to England, where he consecrated the Temple Church in London on 10 February and the church of the Hospitallers at Clerkenwell on 6 March.
(Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 880, f. 245v)
Yet his embassy swiftly took on a powerful symbolic dimension. Heraclius presented the young king with the keys of Jerusalem and of the Holy Sepulchre, a gesture of almost theatrical solemnity, as recorded by Rigord in his Gesta Philippi Augusti.
The scene shows Philip II of France, known to posterity as Philippe Auguste, receiving the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Heraclius, who had travelled west on an urgent political mission: to seek military assistance for a kingdom increasingly hemmed in by the forces of Saladin.
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.
He is depicted here in a mid-fourteenth-century copy of La Fleur des estoires d’Orient by Hayton, now preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
(BNF. Département des Manuscrits. Français 2810, f.251v)
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...
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