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British historian
Thomas Scott Asbridge
(born 1969) is a
historian
at
Queen Mary University of London
,
[1]
a position he has held since 1999.
[2]
He is the author of
The First Crusade: A New History
(2004), a book which describes the background, events, and consequences of the
First Crusade
, as well as of
The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land
(2010), a volume providing a view on the crusading movement, portraying the ideas of justified violence and
jihad
.
Asbridge graduated from
Cardiff University
with a BA in Ancient and Medieval History, before earning his PhD at the
Royal Holloway, University of London
.
[3]
Asbridge's first major work was a revised version of his doctoral thesis, entitled
The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130
.
[4]
Asbridge also wrote and presented a three-part
BBC Two
series on The Crusades, and was the historical consultant for
Kingdom of Heaven
(2005).
Asbridge has, more recently, expanded his retinue with books on
Medieval England
and
France
, the first major release being
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones
in 2015,
[5]
based on the life of
William Marshal
, a knight within
Eleanor of Aquitaine
,
Henry the Young King
, and
Richard I
's retinue. Asbridge presented a BBC documentary on Marshal in 2014.
[6]
He wrote a book for the
Penguin Books
monarch series on Richard I which came out in 2018.
References
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Bibliography
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- Walter the Chancellor,
Walter the Chancellor's The Antiochene Wars
, eds. & trans. T. S. Asbridge & S. B. Edgington (Aldershot, 1999).
- Asbridge, T. S., 'Alice of Antioch: A Case Study of Female Power in the Twelfth Century',
The Experience of Crusading: Defending the Crusader Kingdom
, eds. P. W. Edbury & J. P. Philips (Cambridge, 2003).
- Asbridge, T.,
Richard I, The Crusader King
(Penguin Monarchs) (London, 2018).
- Asbridge, T.,
Talking to the Enemy: The Role and Purpose of Negotiations between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart During the Third Crusade
,
Journal of Medieval History
(2013) vol. 39 (3), pp. 275?296.
- Asbridge, T. S.,
The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130
(Woodbridge, 2000).
- Asbridge, T.,
The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land
(London, 2010).
- Asbridge, T.,
The First Crusade: A New History
(London, 2005).
- Asbridge, T.,
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshall
(London, 2015).
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