Nicholas Morton
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Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (11th - 14th century) - interested in pretty much everything (all views my own) ✝️
Nottingham Trent University
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My recent book "Mongol Storm" offers a history of the Mongol invasions into the Middle East told from many different perspectives- Byzantine, Mamluk, Ayyubid, Crusader etc.
It's now available in paperback!
@BasicBooksUK
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My recent book "Mongol Storm" offers a history of the Mongol invasions into the Near East told from many different perspectives- Byzantine, Mamluk, Ayyubid, Crusader etc.
If you're looking for a summer read...
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My recent book "Mongol Storm" provides an accessible account of Middle Eastern history (13thC) told from many different perspectives - Ayyubid, Byzantine, Crusader, Armenian, Mamluk etc.
If you're looking for some new material for your school/university reading lists ...
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Newly published:
"From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia"
by Peter Jackson
This is a very impressive piece of work.
@yalepress
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The paperback edition of my book:
"The Crusader States & their neighbours: a military history, 1099-1187"
is now available!
@OUPAcademic
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My new book "The Crusader States & their neighbours: a military history, 1099-1187" has just arrived and will be available for purchase on 24 April!
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New release!!!
Atwood's translation of:
"The Secret History of the Mongols"
@PenguinClassics
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Just received a copy of Clive Foss'
"The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire"
@OUPAcademic
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The new cover for the paperback edition of "The Mongol Storm" is complete! Its scheduled for publication in November 23.
The designer has done an excellent job!
@BasicBooksUK
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It gives me great pleasure to announce that my forthcoming book "The Crusader States & their neighbours: a military history" (published by OUP) is now available for pre-order!
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Currently reading!
"The Court of the Caliphs: When Baghdad ruled the Muslim world"
By Hugh Kennedy
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New arrival!
"Armenians in the Byzantine Empire: Identity, Assimilation and Alienation, 867-1098"
By
@BromigeToby
It's a really good piece of work opening up a very important topic
@ibtauris
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New arrival - "Women and the Crusades" by Helen Nicholson
Great cover!
@gawainsmum
@OUPAcademic
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Just arrived it's John Cooper's "The Medieval Nile"
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Long term ambition achieved!
I'm now the proud owner of a copy of Paul Magdalino's "The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos"!
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New arrival!
"Medieval Syria and the onset of the Crusades"
By James Wilson
@JWilson_History
@EdinburghUP
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Just arrived:
"Shi'ite Rulers, Sunni Rivals, and Christians in between: Muslim-Christian Relations in Fatimid Palestine and Egypt"
By Steven Gertz
@gorgiaspress
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Just in! It's Christopher Tyerman's Festschrift "Crusading Europe" edited by G.E.M. Lippiatt and Jessalynn Bird
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Just arrived "The Seljuqs and their successors" edited by Sheila Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi - looks like a very interesting addition to scholarship on the Seljuqs
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Thrilled to receive the second edition of Niall Christie's "Muslims and Crusaders"
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Just finished Mike Carr's "Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean" - fabulous piece of work. There's been some really good studies on Fourteenth Century crusading recently (Timothy Guard's work on English Crusading being another example)
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Person at party: what do you do?
Me: I'm a historian of the crusades
Person: *supplies all their opinions about the crusades and then demands full agreement*
Next person at party: what do you do?
Me: I'm a historian of Medieval monasticism
Person: *changes subject rapidly*
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Just purchased a copy of "Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c.300-1400" by
@pdblessing
Elizabeth Dospel Williams and Eiren L. Shea
There's some brilliant work being done on textiles at the moment. I'm looking forward to getting started!
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My current 'in-isolation' reading. Really fascinating account of female rulership and authority in the Mongol Empire
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Review copy just arrived!
"Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome, 1118-1143"
By Maximilian C. G. Lau
@OUPAcademic
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Another recent acquisition:
Robert G. Hoyland
"In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the creation of an Islamic Empire"
@OUPAcademic
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Behold! The latest edition of the "Crusades" journal
Should you wish to find out more about the journal, or if you are interested in joining the "Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East" then go to
@latineast
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An exciting new addition the Crusade Texts in Translation series - David Cook's "Baybars' Successors: Ibn al-Furat on Qalawun and al-Ashraf"
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New in its "A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities" by the fabulous Anthony Kaldellis!
#Byzantium
@OUPAcademic
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Cambridge University to explore legacy of Genghis Khan - BBC News
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Next quarantine book: Anne Broadbridge's Women and the making of the Mongol Empire - I'm about a quarter of the way through. It's really good.
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Which book would you recommend for quarantined medievalists?
My other recommendation would be Jackson's "The Mongols and the Islamic World"
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New in - very exciting-we’ve been needing a new edition of Anselm’s letters for a long time!
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Dear “Oxford Medieval Texts” your books are brilliant. Please make more of them available in paperback so we can afford them!
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Many congratulations to Rombert Stapel for his fabulous "The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order" - just published!
The latest addition to the Military Religious Orders series ed. by myself and Jochen Burgtorf
@rjstapel
@RoutledgeHist
@latineast
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It’s almost out! - just received my first copy of my next book “The Field of Blood” watch this space...
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*Klaxon sounding* Major new edition and translation of a crucial primary source! Michael the Syrian's chronicle books XV-XXI edition by Amir Harrak
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It gives me great pleasure to introduce Luttrell and O’Malley’s new book - the first published for the Routledge series “The Medieval Religious Orders” which I edit with Jochen Burgtorf
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Exciting news - Dr Kristin Skottki and I have just launched a book series with Routledge "Global Histories before Globalisation." Book proposals welcome! We are now in the process of recruiting an editorial board from across the globe!
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Just published its Hilary Rhodes' "The Crown and the Cross: Burgundy, France, and the Crusades"
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New arrival! Susan Edgington and Steve Biddlecombe's translation of Baldric of Bourgueil - much anticipated.
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I’m a medieval historian with kids - this is how I roll...
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Introducing "Transcultural Medieval Studies" - a new book series published by Brepols. Contact details are available on the flyer if you would like to find out more or submit a book proposal. Feel free to contact me if you have any informal enquiries.
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Next up the continuation of John Skylitzes chronicle (yes it includes an account of the Manzikert campaign)!
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Thrilled to receive Nicholson and Burgtorf's festschrift for Alan Forey (richly deserved!) - some really good articles here and the next thrilling instalment in the series: "The Military Religious Orders"
@RoutledgeHist
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Friday 13 October ... unlucky for Templars
This is the day in 1307 when Philip IV of France arrested members of the Templar order across the kingdom of France.
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Just received a copy of Deny Pringle's recent set of translations: "Saewulf, John of Wurzburg, Theodoric: Three Pilgrimages to the Holy Land"
@BrillPublishing
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The latest addition to the wonderful Oxford Medieval Texts series: "The Chronography of Robert of Torigni" translated by Thomas Bisson
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Would you like to find out about the history of the Crusades?
I will be offering a six week online course with
@Medievalists
entitled:
"The Crusades 1095-1187: A multi-perspective history"
For more information see next post👇
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Thrilled to receive Susan Edgington’s new study on Baldwin I of Jerusalem - the latest addition to the Rulers of the Latin East series!
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A new release from Chris Wickham!
"The Donkey & The Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180"
@OUPAcademic
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The most recent edition of "Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean" has just arrived!
@RoutledgeHist
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Peter Edbury and Massimiliano Gaggero's magnum opus!
"The Chronique d'Ernoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre"
@BrillPublishing
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Behold!!!
The next volume in the fabulous Oxford Medieval Texts series!
Nigel of Longchamp's "Speculum Stultorum" edited and translated by Jill Mann
@OUPAcademic
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Just finished “Lost maps of the caliphs: drawing the world in Eleventh Century Cairo” by Rapoport and Savage-Smith - you can tell from the number of post-its I used how much I enjoyed reading it!
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Really excited to get started reading this one! "Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving frontiers, shifting identities in the land of Rome" by Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
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Arnold of Lubeck now in English translation thanks to Graham Loud!
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Just been reading Anne Broadbridge's "Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol worlds". It really is very good indeed! A great study on the political/religious ideas in circulation in the 13th century Near East
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New release:
"D’Orient en Occident. Les Templiers des origines à la fin du XIIe siècle"
edited by Arnaud Baudin and Philippe Josserand
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The recent edition of "Historia" magazine is on the Mongols.
It includes an article by me on the battle of Köse Dağ (1243).
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Just arrived! Katherine Allen Smith's "The Bible and Crusade Narrative" - I've been looking forward to this one, I suspect it might be a game-changer.
@boydellbrewer
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Just finished Van Tricht's "The Horoscope of Emperor Baldwin II" - a very compelling counter-argument to the longstanding claim that the Latin Empire of Constantinople was a cultural wasteland. He depicts instead a vibrant society, built upon a range of cultural influences.
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I'm very grateful to
@StrackGeorg
for giving me a copy of his major new study "Solo sermone" at
@IMC_Leeds
which I understand includes a new interpretation of Pope Urban II's involvement in the launch of the First Crusade!
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New arrival:
"Merits of the Plague"
By Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Edited and translated by Joel Blecher and Mairaj Syed
@PenguinBooks
@PenguinClassics
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Excited to receive my copy of Jonathan Phillips' new biography of Saladin!
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New in: Tamar Boyadjian’s “The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean”
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I've been meaning to read Nicholas Paul's "To follow in their footsteps" for ages. Everyone's always said how good it is and now I've finally got my own copy!
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Thrilled to receive my review copy of "Syria in Crusader Times" edited by Carole Hillenbrand - looks like there are some really interesting articles here!
@EdinburghUP
#MedievalTwitter
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Next up on the quarantine reading list: Philip Baldwin's "Pope Gregory X and the Crusades"
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Just arrived in the post! Michael Fulton's new book: "Siege warfare during the Crusades"
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My new book "Field of Blood" is now available for purchase in the US!
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Good news - Martin Hall's edition and translation of John of Garland's "De triumphis Ecclesie" has just been published!
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It gives me great pleasure to announce (belatedly) the publication of my new edited collection. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed!
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Really good study by Danielle Park on papal protection for crusaders’ families. Fills a conspicuous gap in the historiography.
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Just arrived: Steve Tibble's "The Crusader Strategy: defending the Holy Land"
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Taking your children around castles in the rain must be one of the true marks of a medievalist
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Excited to receive my copy of:
"Haçlı Seferleri Avrupa’dan Latin Doğu’ya Tarih Yazımı, Tasvirler ve İlişkiler (The Crusades Historiography, Representations and Relations From Europe to The Latin East) ed.
@SGKaraca
Includes my piece on the crusaders' ambitions towards Damascus
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We're offering a fully funded PhD studentship in Medieval Near Eastern history and Crusading studies -follow link.
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Hot from the press: Dawn Marie Hayes' new study on Roger II of Sicily
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... and today's post has brought the accompanying volume again by David Cook - a selection of chronicle extracts on the Mamluk sultans: Qalawun and Al-Ashraf Khalil
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Another new arrival - Megan Cassidy-Welch's "War and Memory at the time of the Fifth Crusade"
@mcassidywelch
@PSUPress
#Medievaltwitter
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Thrilled to receive my copy of “Christian-Muslim relations. A bibliographical history: volume 15” edited by Douglas Pratt and Charles Tieszen (which includes my essay on interfaith relations at the time of the Crusades).
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JRR Tolkien has made it very hard for me to study the principality of Morea. Whenever I read anything about it I can't help imagining an underground kingdom built by dwarves and full of orcs.
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Next on the quarantine reading list is George Lane's "Early Mongol Rule"
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Another exciting new publication: a translation of a little known thirteenth century Genoese chronicle by Jacobo da Varagine!
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Just finished reading "Singing the Crusades" (Linda Paterson) and "Literature of the Crusades" (Linda Paterson and Simon Parsons, eds). Some really great discussion here, concerning many little known sources. Much to be recommended!
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Its now 900 years since the battle of the Field of Blood (1119) - find out more by reading my recent book "The Battle of the Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East"
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Just finished May's history of the Mongol Empire - very clear and readable - an excellent textbook!
@EdinburghUP
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Next up on the quarantine reading list - Allsen's Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire
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Not long now! Check out the cover for my forthcoming book on the Battle of the Field of Blood
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