Richard Allington
(Saint Louis University) received his B.A. in History from Christendom College in 2011 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Saint Louis University in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He published his first article ““Honey and Venom: Social Distinctions between the Old and the Young in Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care of a Changing World,” in Church History and Religious Culture in 2017. He has taught classes for the History Department at Saint Louis University since 2012.
Jessalynn Bird
is Assistant Professor in the Humanistic Studies program at Saint Mary’s College, Indiana. She has written extensively about the activities of the circle of Peter the Chanter in Paris, Jacques de Vitry, heresy, sermons, and the crusade movement. Co-editor of Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291 (2013), she is currently translating the histories of Jacques de Vitry and turning her dissertation into a monograph.
Adam M. Bishop
obtained his Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Toronto in 2011. He then spent two years working as a postdoctoral researcher for the project “The Legal Status of Religious Minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean World (5th–15th Centuries)” at the Université de Nantes. He is currently an independent scholar whose research focuses on the Assizes of Jerusalem, the legal texts used by the High Court and Burgess Courts of the crusader kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus.
Tomasz Borowski
received his B.A. and M.A. in archaeology in Durham University (UK) and in 2015 was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Reading (UK). His research focuses on the material culture, interfaith relations and links between religion and identity in the multicultural societies inhabiting medieval crusader states in the Levant and the Baltic regions. He is an author of a monograph about cities, castles and monasteries of medieval Livonia as well as several articles focusing on the diverse, urban society of 14th C. Famagusta. He currently works as the curator of the medieval gallery in the Polish History Museum, Warsaw.
is an independent scholar living in Ireland. The research presented here was undertaken as part of his doctoral thesis on “The Depiction of Muslims in Contemporary Latin Narratives of the First Crusade,” completed with support from a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, in 2017. His primary research interest is the depiction of “otherized” groups in the works of medieval authors. He currently teaches in the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin and in a number of third level institutions in Ireland.
Rev. Sam Zeno Conedera
(Society of Jesus) was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in medieval history from UCLA in 2009, and since then he has taught history at Santa Clara University and studied philosophy and theology in New York and Rome. Fr. Conedera was ordained to the priesthood in June 2017. He is the author of Ecclesiastical Knights: The Military Orders in Castile, 1150–1330 (2015). Although he began with the Middle Ages, his primary area of inquiry is shifting to the early history of the Society of Jesus.
Charles W. Connell
(Ph.D., Rutgers University) is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Northern Arizona University. In addition to aspects of the crusades (e.g. “Issues of Humanity in the Rhetoric of the Crusades” in Humanity and the Natural World (2013), his most recent research and publications focus on medieval popular opinion and include a monograph entitled Popular Opinion in the Middle Ages (2016), “The Fall of Acre 1291 in the Court of Public Opinion” (forthcoming 2018, edited by John France), plus extended articles on “Foreigners and Fear,” and “Public Opinion and Public Culture” in Medieval Culture: a Compendium of Critical Issues (2014).
Cathleen A. Fleck
is currently an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts and in the Middle East Studies program at Saint Louis University. Previously she published on the art of the courts of Naples and Avignon. In her current project, she examines symbolic representations of Jerusalem’s monuments in the Crusader era of the Middle Ages (ca. 1187–1356). Her study moves around the Mediterranean to look at how diverse images in several media expressed shifting Christian and Islamic concerns and served as instruments of politics, power, persuasion, consolation, and spirituality.
is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University. Her articles on the twelfth- and thirteenth-century artistic production of the Latin Kingdom have appeared in journals that include Gesta and The Journal of the Walters Art Museum and collections such as The Crusades and Visual Culture and Medieval Coins and Seals. Together with Daniel H. Weiss she has edited a volume entitled France and the Holy Land. Mahoney’s research has been supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
C. Matthew Phillips
is Professor of History at Concordia University, Nebraska. He completed his Ph.D. in medieval European history at Saint Louis University in 2006. His research has focused on medieval monasticism, preaching, devotion to the True Cross, and the Crusades.