Denys Pringle

Denys Pringle (born September 20, 1951 ) is a British archaeologist .

Denys Pringle studied from 1970 to 1973 at the University of Southampton (BA) and then at Keble College of Oxford University , where he received his doctorate in 1978 with a dissertation on "Sixth-century Byzantine Fortifications in Africa". From 1979 to 1984 he was Assistant Director of the British School of Archeology in Jerusalem . 1984–1985 he was a Fellow of Harvard University for Byzantine Studies in Dumbarton Oaks , Washington . From 1986 to July 1999, he was Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments for the Historic Buildings and Monuments Directorate of Scotland. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Cardiff University .

Pringles was best known for his numerous publications on the buildings of the Crusaders in the Middle East .

Publications (selection)

• The defense of Byzantine Africa from Justinian to the Arab conquest. An account of the military history and archeology of the African provinces in the sixth and seventh centuries. Oxford 1981
• The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus.
  • Vol. 1: AK (excluding Acre and Jerusalem) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993.
  • Vol. 2: 2nd LZ (excluding Tire) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998.
  • Vol. 3: The City of Jerusalem . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007.
  • Vol. 4: . The Cities of Acre and Tire, together with Addenda and Corrigenda to Vols. 1-3 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-85148-0 .
• Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997.
• To Expatriate Community in Tunis, 1648–1885: St George's Protestant Cemetery and its Inscriptions . Cardiff Studies in Archeology / BAR International Series, Vol. 1811. Oxford 2008. ISBN 978-1-4073-0222-5 .

Web links

• Website at Cardiff University