Thomas Asbridge

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Thomas Scott "Tom" Asbridge (born April 16, 1969 ) is an English professor of medieval history with a focus on crusades .

Life

Asbridge graduated from Cardiff University with a BA in Ancient and Medieval History . His doctoral thesis at the Department of Royal Holloway, University of London dealt with the history of the Crusader State Principality of Antioch . Asbridge then taught at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and at the University of Reading .

Since 1999 Asbridge has taught at Queen Mary University in London on the Middle Ages, Crusades and Islam and the West.

The medievalist Michael Borgolte judged his book Die Kreuzzüge : "He does not excel anywhere with subtle text interpretations, but with chronological analyzes patiently dissolves many alleged causal chains."

Asbridge is married with one daughter.

Fonts

Books

  • with Susan Edgington: Walter the Chancellor's "The Antiochene Wars": A Translation and Commentary. Ashgate, Aldershot 1999, pp. 1-272., ISBN 1-84014-263-4 .
  • The Creation of the Principality of Antioch 1098-1130. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2000.
  • The First Crusade: A New History. Free Press, Simon & Schuster, London 2004.
  • The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land. Simon & Schuster, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7432-6860-8 .
    • The crusades. Translated from the English by Susanne Held. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-94648-2 .
  • The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones. Ecco, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-226205-9 .
    • The greatest of all knights and the world of the Middle Ages. Translated from the English by Susanne Held. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-94923-0 .

Essays

  • The Jabal as-Summaq and the Principality of Antioch. In: Jonathan Phillips (ed.): The First Crusade: Origins and Impact. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997.
  • The Significance and Causes of the Battle of the Field of Blood . In: Journal of Medieval History. Vol. 24 (1997), No. 3, pp. 301-316.
  • Alice of Antioch . A Case Study of Female Power in the Twelfth Century. In: Peter Edbury, Jonathan Phillips (Eds.): The Experience of Crusading: Defining the Crusader Kingdom. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, pp. 29-47.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Borgolte: Mercury wrap for the Christian knights. In: FAZ.net . October 26, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Th. Asbridge: The Crusades. Stuttgart 2010. p. 736.
  3. ↑ Quicksilver wrap for the Christian knights. In: FAZ . October 27, 2010, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Asbridge, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asbridge, Tom; Asbridge, Thomas Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English historian, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1969